Fig. 1. The effects of mercury pressure (Annealed at 500 ℃ and quenched to 77 K). (a) Annealing temperature; (b) Impact on point defect concentration^[20]

Fig. 2. The effects of temperature (a) and mercury partial pressure (470 ℃) (b) on defect concentration, and the relationship of relative chemical potential of Li, Na, and Cu in MCT and CdTe with Cd partial pressure (c)^[24]

Fig. 3. Dependence of the minority carrier lifetime (a) and R₀A product (b) on dislocation density, the theoretically predicted curves (solid line and dotted line) calculated by JOWIKOWSKI et al.^[26-29]

Fig. 4. Crosshatch and Mosaic morphologies of MCT films (X-ray diffraction topography)^[34]

Fig. 5. The relationship between lattice mismatch and Crosshatch (a), (b) as well as FWHM (c)^[35]，thermal expansion coefficient of MCT and CZT (d) as a function of composition, the data marked with solid and hollow circles were measured by Skauli et al^[37], line 1, 2, 3, and 4 were from the reported literatures[38-43]

Fig. 6. MCT film with a normal surface and rough structure (a), and the range of lattice mismatch values without a rough structure（b）^[46]

Fig. 7. The schematic diagram (a) and characterizations of threading dislocations (b) ^[48], the Cd-rich precipitates and dislocations in CZT substrate (c) ^[50], the dislocations in MCT film deriving from the Cd-rich precipitates (d) ^[51]

Fig. 8. The dependence of inclusion size (a) and atomic diffusion coefficients (b) with annealing temperature, the IR transmission images of the etched Cd-rich inclusion before annealing and after annealing (c)^[53]

Fig. 9. The crater defects deriving from the particles (a)^[57] and precipitates (b)^[58] on the substrate

Fig. 10. The cross-section photography of the hill-like defect on the surface of MCT film and the variation of composition along the cross-section of the defect^[63]

Fig. 11. SEM images (a), (c) and composition (b), (d) of two crystalline defects^[62]

Fig. 12. Optical morphologies of terracing patterns on the surface of MCT^[65]

Fig. 13. Optical morphologies of surface ripple for MCT films (a), (b)^[71]