Abstract
The changes in the device characteristics under high-bias conditions are investigated for InAlAs/InGaAs and AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with heavily Be-doped base lasers, focusing on the base current and 1/f noise characteristics. It is shown that the ideality factor of the surface recombination base current provides information on the Be movement accompanying the degradation. For stress current densities up to 1.5*10/sup 5/ A/cm/sup 2/, the Be movement in the InAlAs/InGaAs HBTs is estimated to be no more than a small fraction of the 5 nm setback layer. The 1/f noise measurement highlight the effect of current stressing on the surface recombination in the HBTs. A characteristic spectral shape is found in the noise spectra for the current-stressed AlGaAs/GaAs HBT, possibly originating from the degradation-induced carrier traps. Although both HBTs have similar electronic properties, these results illustrate the striking difference in their stress current behaviors.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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