Peculiarities of the external photoelectric effect in narrow-band semiconductors caused by soft X-ray radiation

The features of the external photoelectric effect caused by soft x-ray radiation of a laser plasma source in CdxHg1-xTe solid solutions are considered. The possibility of a contribution from the ionization of internal electron shells to the photocurrent and the generation of a pulsed electric field in the near-surface region due to the output of photoelectrons are discussed