EMITTER SIZE EFFECT ON CURRENT GAIN IN FULLY SELF-ALIGNED ALGAAS/GAAS HBTS WITH ALGAAS SURFACE PASSIVATION LAYER

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作者
HAYAMA, N
HONJO, K
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[1] Microelectronics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki 213, 1-1, Miyazaki, 4-chome, Miyamae-ku
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10.1109/55.62965
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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The current gain dependence on emitter-base junction size for fully self-aligned AlGaAs / GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT’s) has been investigated, in which the extrinsic base layer is passivated by a partially thinned AlGaAs emitter layer. The current gain is improved due to surface recombination current reduction by a factor of 1 / 40 in the extrinsic base region. It has also been found that the base current is dominated by an excess leakage current in the proton-implanted isolation region. © 1990 IEEE
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