The discovery of Dirac fermions in a number of 2D and 3D materials boosted the solid-state
research in an unprecedented way. Among the many hopes of using their exceptional …

We present detailed theoretical analysis of nonradiative Auger recombination in narrow-gap
mercury-cadmium-telluride quantum wells (HgCdTe QWs). We suggest a microscopic model …

Two-dimensional Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells close to the topological phase
transition can generate significant cyclotron emission that is magnetic field tunable in the …

Interband photoluminescence (PL) and stimulation emission (SE) from HgTe/HgCdTe
quantum well (QW) heterostructures are studied in 5–20 µm wavelength range in regard to …

Surface plasmon lasing in semiconductor gain media at far-infrared frequencies requires
simultaneously long non-radiative recombination times and large plasmon propagation …

HgTe/CdHgTe quantum well (QW) heterostructures have attracted a lot of interest recently
due to insights they provided towards the physics of topological insulators and massless …

The dispersion laws of two-dimensional plasmons in narrow-gap HgTe/CdHgTe quantum
wells are calculated taking into account the spatial dispersion of the electron susceptibility …

We calculate the threshold energies of Auger recombination in the HgTe/CdHgTe quantum
well heterostructures with the bandgap in the 30–70 meV range. It is shown that there is a …

We report an experimental study of the electrical properties of the interface between the Al 2
O 3 passivating coating grown by plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition at different …

Heterostructures with quantum wells (QWs) based on HgCdTe are promising systems for
making compact semiconductor sources of the mid-infrared range. This range has …