{"title":"Effect of current and voltage stress on the DC characteristics of SiGe-base heterojunction bipolar transistors","authors":"K. Liao, R. Reif, T. Kamins","doi":"10.1109/BIPOL.1994.587896","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Degradation of SiGe-base HBTs under high-forward-current and reverse-bias stresses are investigated. The observations are explained using existing homojunction theories. Inclusion of Ge into the base may potentially improve the junction reliability of bipolar transistors.","PeriodicalId":373721,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BIPOL.1994.587896","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Degradation of SiGe-base HBTs under high-forward-current and reverse-bias stresses are investigated. The observations are explained using existing homojunction theories. Inclusion of Ge into the base may potentially improve the junction reliability of bipolar transistors.