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Conference paper
Electrostatic discharge characterization of epitaxial-base silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors
Abstract
This paper investigates high-current and electrostatic discharge (ESD) phenomenon in pseudomorphic epitaxial-base silicon-germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBT) in base-collector, base-emitter, collector-emitter and collector-to-substrate configurations. Transmission line pulse (TLP) and ESD human body model (HBM) wafer-level reliability testing of SiGe HBT devices is completed for high-current characterization and evaluation of the ESD robustness of a BiCMOS SiGe technology.