In this work we have measured the room temperature Raman spectra of the LO-phonon-plasmon modes of oriented CdTe samples prepared from commercially available p-type CdTe single crystals grown by vertical Bridgman process. The aim was to determine the free carrier concentration and to compare the results with other methods, namely photoluminescence (PL) and Hall effect. In the former, the energy difference between the free-to-bound and donor-acceptor transitions is used. In this paper we discuss the details of measurements and compare the results obtained by the three experimental techniques. We show that the three processes can yield similar results. While the Hall method can only be used in samples of low resistivity and requires adequate ohmic contacts and the PL method requires sample cooling, the Raman method is simpler and quicker: sample preparation is easier and experiments can be done at room temperature.

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