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Polycrystalline Silicon - Germanium Emitters for Gain Control, With Application to SiGe HBTs

Polycrystalline Silicon - Germanium Emitters for Gain Control, With Application to SiGe HBTs
Polycrystalline Silicon - Germanium Emitters for Gain Control, With Application to SiGe HBTs
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.
Bipolar transistors, polysilicon emitters, SiGe, SiGe HBTs, SiGe heterjunction bipolar transistors
1480-1486
Kunz, V Dominik
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de Groot, C H
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Hall, Steven
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Ashburn, Peter
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Kunz, V Dominik
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de Groot, C H
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Hall, Steven
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Ashburn, Peter
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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.

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Published date: June 2003
Keywords: Bipolar transistors, polysilicon emitters, SiGe, SiGe HBTs, SiGe heterjunction bipolar transistors
Organisations: Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology

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Local EPrints ID: 258688
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/258688
PURE UUID: cc499678-28bb-46bb-a009-cb2f23dda2f2
ORCID for C H de Groot: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-7101

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Date deposited: 10 Mar 2004
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:11

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Author: V Dominik Kunz
Author: C H de Groot ORCID iD
Author: Steven Hall
Author: Peter Ashburn

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