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Publication
BCTM 1993
Conference paper
APCVD-grown self-aligned SiGe-base HBTs
Abstract
SiGe-base bipolar technology has emerged during the past few years and is now proceeding to qualify for advanced development and manufacturing. This paper reviews important aspects of device design, SiGe epitaxy, and transistor integration. A novel high-performance SiGe-base technology is presented as one way to address the upcoming challenges. The characteristic technology features are the SiGe-base grown by atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD), the device doping profile with high base doping and low-doped emitter, and the self-aligned low-parasitic device structure which requires only a very low process thermal budget. The characteristics and performance of the experimental devices are discussed, and discussions are extended to manufacturability aspects of HBTs based on SiGe APCVD.