The change of electrical performances of silicon-germanium (SiGe)heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and Si bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was studied as afunction of reactor fast neutron radiation fluence. Alt...The change of electrical performances of silicon-germanium (SiGe)heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and Si bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was studied as afunction of reactor fast neutron radiation fluence. Alter neutron irradiation, the collector currentI_c and the current gain beta decrease, and the base current I_b increases generally for SiGe HBT.The higher the neutron irradiation fluence is, the larger I_b increases. For conventional Si BJT,I_c and I_b increase as well as beta decreases much larger than SiGe HBT at the same fluence. It isshown that SiGe HBT has a larger anti-radiation threshold and better anti-radiation performance thanSi BJT. The mechanism of performance changes induced by irradiation was preliminarily discussed.展开更多
文摘The change of electrical performances of silicon-germanium (SiGe)heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and Si bipolar junction transistor (BJT) was studied as afunction of reactor fast neutron radiation fluence. Alter neutron irradiation, the collector currentI_c and the current gain beta decrease, and the base current I_b increases generally for SiGe HBT.The higher the neutron irradiation fluence is, the larger I_b increases. For conventional Si BJT,I_c and I_b increase as well as beta decreases much larger than SiGe HBT at the same fluence. It isshown that SiGe HBT has a larger anti-radiation threshold and better anti-radiation performance thanSi BJT. The mechanism of performance changes induced by irradiation was preliminarily discussed.
