Comparison of the effects of surface passivation and base quasi-electric fields on the current gain of AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors grown on GaAs and Si substrates
- 5 August 1991
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 59 (6) , 691-693
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.105367
Abstract
The effects of extrinsic base surface passivation and base quasi‐electric field on the current gain of AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) grown upon GaAs and Si substrates are compared. The degree of improvement in the current gain realized by either the base field and/or passivation depends strongly on which substrate is used. It is also shown that base‐emitter junction space‐charge recombination current is a significant base current component for all devices, even at high current levels. The current gain for passivated devices with a base field of 1.25×104 V/cm achieves a maximum value of 1100 for a HBT‐on‐GaAs, and 100 for a HBT‐on‐Si.Keywords
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