The invention relates to a method and a device for compressing a
free space in a
cadmium zinc telluride crystal growing
crucible through double sealing sleeves and belongs to the technical field of special
crystal growth. The method has the main technical scheme that Cd, Zn and Te raw materials which meet Cd1-xZnxTe (x is 0.04 to 0.8) and have the purity being 99.99999 percent are charged into a
quartz crucible, a secondary sealing sleeve and a primary sealing sleeve are sequentially placed into the
quartz crucible, the
vacuum pumping is carried out until the pressure is 2.0*10<-4>Pa, and the
quartz crucible is sealed and knotted at the primary sealing sleeve part. The sealed crucible is placed into a material blending furnace, the temperature is slowly raised to 500 DEG C, after the heat insulation for a certain time, the temperature is slowly raised, and the material blending and the heat insulation are carried out after the
melting point of materials is reached. The temperature is slowly lowered to the
room temperature, and the material blending is completed. Then, the crucible is taken out, the crucible is subjected to secondary
pipe sealing at the secondary sealing sleeve part. The primary sealing sleeve part at the
tail part is
cut off, and the crucible containing CdZnTe materials is placed into a
crystal growth furnace for carrying out
single crystal growth. The size compression on the
free space during the
crystal growth is realized through using the double sealing sleeves by the secondary
pipe sealing method, and in the subsequent
single crystal growth process, the formation of Cd vacant sites in crystals can be effectively inhibited, so the performance of the crystals is improved.