MBE-GROWN SI/SIGE HBTS WITH HIGH-BETA, FT, AND FMAX

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GRUHLE, A [1 ]
KIBBEL, H [1 ]
KONIG, U [1 ]
ERBEN, U [1 ]
KASPER, E [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ULM,DEPT ELECTR DEVICES & CIRCUITS,W-7900 ULM,GERMANY
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10.1109/55.145022
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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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Si/SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT's) have been fabricated by growing the complete layer structure with MBE. The typical base doping of 2 . 10(19) cm-3 largely exceeded the emitter impurity level and led to sheet resistances of about 1 k OMEGA/open-square-box. The devices exhibited 500-V Early voltage, and a maximum room-temperature current gain of 550 rising to 13000 at 77 K. Devices built on buried-layer substrates had an f(max) of 40 GHz, the highest value reported for Si/SiGe HBT's. The transit frequency reached 42 GHz, a record for MBE-grown transistors of this kind.
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