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The reliability physics of SiGe hetero-junction bipolar transistors  

이승윤 (한국전자통신연구원 반도체원천기술연구소 SiGe소자팀)
박찬우 (한국전자통신연구원 반도체원천기술연구소 SiGe소자팀)
김상훈 (한국전자통신연구원 반도체원천기술연구소 SiGe소자팀)
이상흥 (한국전자통신연구원 반도체원천기술연구소 SiGe소자팀)
강진영 (한국전자통신연구원 반도체원천기술연구소 SiGe소자팀)
조경익 (한국전자통신연구원 반도체원천기술연구소 SiGe소자팀)
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Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society / v.12, no.4, 2003 , pp. 239-250 More about this Journal
Abstract
The reliability degradation phenomena in the SiGe hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT) are investigated in this review. In the case of the SiGe HBT the decrease of the current gain, the degradation of the AC characteristics, and the offset voltage are frequently observed, which are attributed to the emitter-base reverse bias voltage stress, the transient enhanced diffusion, and the deterioration of the base-collector junction due to the fluctuation in fabrication process, respectively. The reverse-bias stress on the emitter-base junction causes the recombination current to rise, increasing the base current and degrading the current gain, because hot carriers formed by the high electric field at the junction periphery generate charged traps at the silicon-oxide interface and within the oxide region. Because of the enhanced diffusion of the dopants in the intrinsic base induced by the extrinsic base implantation, the shorter distance between the emitter-base junction and the extrinsic base than a critical measure leads to the reduction of the cut-off frequency ($f_t$) of the device. If the energy of the extrinsic base implantation is insufficient, the turn-on voltage of the collector-base junction becomes low, in the result, the offset voltage appears on the current-voltage curve.
Keywords
SiGe; transistor; reliability; bias stress; offset voltage; transient enhanced diffusion;
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