Numerical investigation of the effect of doping profiles on the high frequency performance of InP/InGaAs super scaled HBTs

TLDR: In this article, the authors show that the emitter and collector doping profile engineering is very important for transistor optimization, in particular, adjusting the low-doped emitter section to the depletion length resulted in the decrease of the series resistance and increased f/sub t/ and f/ sub max/; decreasing of the collector doping concentration and shrinking the collector thickness reduced the collector transit time.

Abstract: Our simulations show that the emitter and collector doping profile engineering is very important for the transistor optimization, in particular, adjusting the low doped emitter section to the depletion length resulted in the decrease of the emitter series resistance and increased f/sub t/ and f/sub max/; decreasing of the collector doping concentration and shrinking the collector thickness reduced the collector transit time. Accounting for the lateral diffusion of hot electrons in the device with submicron emitter was found to be important in the transistor optimization process. This effect determines the effective thickness of the emitter finger and the value of the push-out current.