Domestic cadmium zinc telluride crystal materials have not yet achieved large-scale production, and the industry has broad room for development in the future.

Cadmium zinc telluride has the advantages of low noise, high resolution and high energy response rate. It is the best semiconductor material for hard X-ray and γ-ray detection with energies between 10 keV-1MeV. The sensitivity and accuracy of cadmium zinc telluride materials for radiation detection are much higher than traditional materials. As early as the 1990s, some domestic companies applied cadmium zinc telluride materials to radiation monitoring.

According to the “2020-2024 Cadmium Zinc Telluride Crystal Materials Industry Market In-depth Research and Investment Prospects Forecast Analysis Report” released by the Industrial Research Center It shows that the cadmium zinc telluride material has higher functionality and has higher energy and spatial resolution than ordinary scintillator detectors. In the future, cadmium zinc telluride materials will be mainly used in security inspections to more accurately detect dangerous goods such as liquids and power banks. In addition, cadmium zinc telluride materials can also be used in medical treatment, which can reduce the radiation dose in medical CT, medical imaging, etc., broaden its scope of indications, and treat tumors in all groups such as the elderly, weak, young, and pregnant. Early detection etc.

From an application perspective, medical imaging will become the most important application field of cadmium zinc telluride materials in the future. With the rapid development of my country’s medical industry, the demand for medical imaging-related equipment continues to rise, and the scale of the medical imaging market continues to expand. By 2020, it will reach More than 800 billion yuan. Driven by the medical imaging industry, the market demand for cadmium zinc telluride crystals in my country is rising, and it is expected that the market sales of cadmium zinc telluride wafers will reach 22.8 million yuan by 2022.

In terms of production, since cadmium zinc telluride single crystal materials and their application fields involve national defense, military and other fields, the export of cadmium zinc telluride single crystal materials and related raw materials, chips, devices, etc. to my country is strictly restricted. In order to enhance my country’s comprehensive strength, the government has increased investment in material research and development, and has achieved breakthroughs in the research and development of cadmium zinc telluride materials, gradually realizing domestic substitution.

From the perspective of market competition, due to the high technical threshold for the production of cadmium zinc telluride single crystal materials, there are only a small number of manufacturing companies in the world. The main foreign manufacturers include ASELSAN, Kromek, etc., and domestic manufacturers include Ditech, Ruiyan Technology, and Northwest Industrial University, Kunming Institute of Physics and other research units. Although my country has realized the production of cadmium zinc telluride wafers, the output is low and the price is relatively expensive, about 3,000 yuan/gram. The current gross profit margin of cadmium zinc telluride wafer products is above 60%, attracting more capital investment. In the future, as cadmium zinc telluride wafers realize industrialization development, it is expected that the price will decrease in the future, which will in turn increase market demand.

Industry analysts said that cadmium zinc telluride wafer materials have superior performance and good application prospects in the medical industry. In the future, with the development of my country’s medical With the rapid development of the industry, the market demand for cadmium zinc telluride wafer materials will continue to rise. Since cadmium zinc telluride wafer materials are related to national defense, foreign developed countries restrict the export of cadmium zinc telluride wafer materials and raw materials to my country. Therefore, the development speed of my country’s cadmium zinc telluride wafer materials industry is slow and has not yet achieved large-scale production. In the future, my country’s cadmium zinc telluride wafer materials market There is broad room for development.