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Conference paper
Fully-depleted-collector polysilicon-emitter SiGe-base vertical bipolar transistor on SOI
Abstract
A novel vertical bipolar transistor on SOI is proposed and demonstrated. The transistor operates on the principle that the collector region is fully depleted so that the charge carriers travel laterally towards the collector reachthrough and contact after traversing the intrinsic base layer. The SOI silicon layer thickness is comparable to that used in SOI CMOS, and no subcollector layer or deep trench isolation are required. Simulated device characteristics are shown. The transistor is demonstrated in a polysilicon-emitter SiGe-base npn implementation on SOI with a 140-nm silicon layer. The fabricated npn bipolar transistors exhibit a BVceo of 4.2 V and a peak fT of over 60 GHz.