Polycrystalline Silicon - Germanium Emitters for Gain Control, With Application to SiGe HBTs
Kunz, V Dominik, de Groot, C H, Hall, Steven and Ashburn, Peter (2003) Polycrystalline Silicon - Germanium Emitters for Gain Control, With Application to SiGe HBTs. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 50, (6), 1480-1486.
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This paper investigates germanium incorporation into polysilicon emitters for gain control in SiGe heterjunction bipolar transistors. A theory for the base current of a polySiGe emitter is developed, which combines the effects of the polySiGe grains, the grain boundaries and the interfacial layer at the polySiGe/Si interface into an expression for the effective surface recombination velocity of a polySiGe emitter. Silicon bipolar transistors are fabricated with 0,10 and 19 percent Ge clmpared with a control transistor containing no germanium. These values are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions. The competing mechanisms of base current increase by Ge incorporation into the polysilicon and base current decrease due to an interfacial oxide layer are investigated.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Bipolar transistors, polysilicon emitters, SiGe, SiGe HBTs, SiGe heterjunction bipolar transistors |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > NANO |
| Item ID: | 258688 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2004 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 15:19 |
| Contributors: | Kunz, V Dominik (Author) de Groot, C H (Author) Hall, Steven (Author) Ashburn, Peter (Author) |
| Date: | June 2003 |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/258688 |
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