Influence of buffer layer thickness on DC performance of GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors grown on silicon substrates
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Electron Device Letters
- Vol. 9 (12) , 657-659
- https://doi.org/10.1109/55.20427
Abstract
The DC performance of GaAs/AlAs heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) grown on silicon substrates with buffer layers ranging from 0 to 5 mu m was investigated. Current gain, collector-emitter breakdown voltage, emitter-base and collector-base diode ideality factors, and breakdown voltages were measured as the buffer layer thickness was varied between 0 and 5 mu m. The current gain steadily increases with increasing buffer layer thickness until the layer reaches 3 mu m. However, the other DC parameters are relatively insensitive to the buffer layer thickness. A small-signal current gain of 60 is typically achieved for devices with 6*6- mu m/sup 2/ emitters at a density of 6*10/sup 4/ A/cm/sup 2/ when the buffer layer is >or=3 mu m.Keywords
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