US 11,754,730 B2
Mercury chalcoiodides for room temperature radiation detection
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Wilmette, IL (US); and Yihui He, Evanston, IL (US)
Assigned to Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US)
Filed by Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/721,634.
Application 17/721,634 is a division of application No. 16/486,088, abandoned, previously published as PCT/US2018/018318, filed on Feb. 15, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/459,880, filed on Feb. 16, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0252742 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. G01T 1/24 (2006.01); H01L 31/032 (2006.01); H01L 31/08 (2006.01); H01L 31/18 (2006.01)
CPC G01T 1/24 (2013.01) [H01L 31/032 (2013.01); H01L 31/085 (2013.01); H01L 31/18 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of making a single-crystal of an inorganic compound having the formula Hg3Q2I2, where Q represents a chalcogen atom or a combination of chalcogen atoms, the method comprising growing the single-crystal from two or more precursors selected from HgQ, HgI2, Hg, Q, and I2 via chemical vapor transport growth in the presence of an organic polymer vapor transport agent.