Georgia Tech inventors have developed a design for a vertical high-speed bipolar transistor incorporating superjunction collector designs. A superjunction collector can be utilized to significantly improve avalanche breakdown behavior of SiGe high-speed bi-polar transistors with little or no impact on device speed. This superjunction collector device design is applied in a high-speed silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor, and significant improvement has been demonstrated in the device speed and breakdown performance.
- Higher breakdown voltages — higher breakdown voltages with no performance degradation
- Improved design- involving super junction collector featuresÂ
- Scalable- operable at room temperature and voltage ranges from 1V to 20V
- Easily implementable- high-speed semiconductor transistor device
- PC's
- Gaming machines
- Charging stations
- Displays
- Lighting
There have been growing markets for high-frequency applications such as mm-wave radars; multi-Gb/s WLANs; 100 Gb/s Ethernet; and THz-imaging systems. The operation frequency of these applications ranges from 10 GHz to 1 THz, and high-speed bipolar transistors (such as InP DHBTs), especially using low-cost silicon-based IC platforms such as SiGe HBTs, are essential in realizing these applications. There exists, however, a fundamental tradeoff between the device cutoff frequency and breakdown voltage. Current approaches to address these issues have undesirable consequences such as compromising both the RF output power and the signal-to-noise ratio of such systems.
