摘要:
A bipolar transistor device with a large current capacity is formed by connecting a plurality of transistor elements to each other in parallel, each transistor element having a collector layer, a base layer, and an emitter layer formed respectively in a semiconductor substrate. In the bipolar transistor device, the base layers of a plurality of the transistor elements are extended in parallel to each other and those base layers are separated from each other. In each separated base layer, a first base electrode is formed on a part of the base layer which is separated from an emitter junction with the emitter layer, and a second base electrode is formed on another portion of the base layer closer to the emitter junction than the first base electrode. To dispose the base electrodes of a plurality of the transistor elements in parallel to each other, a base wiring is connected to the first base electrodes of those elements electrically. Consequently, a ballast resistor that causes no variation in the resistance value can be connected to each of a plurality of the transistor elements.
摘要:
In a semiconductor device including a stack structure having heterojunction units formed by alternately stacking GaN (gallium nitride) films and barrier films which are different in forbidden band width, a first electrode formed in a Schottky barrier contact with one sidewall of the stack structure, and a second electrode formed in contact with the other sidewall, an oxide film is interposed between the first electrode and the barrier films. Therefore, the reverse leakage current is prevented from flowing through defects remaining in the barrier films due to processing of the barrier films, so that a reverse leakage current of a Schottky barrier diode is reduced.
摘要:
In a mesa type bipolar transistor or a thyristor, since carriers injected from an emitter layer or an anode layer to a base layer or a gate layer diffuse laterally and are recombined, reduction in the size and improvement for the switching frequency is difficult.In the invention, the emitter layer or the anode layer is formed of two high-doped and low-doped layers, a semiconductor region for suppressing recombination comprising an identical semiconductor having an impurity density identical with that of the low-doped layer is present being in contact with a base layer or a gate layer and a surface passivation layer, and the width of the semiconductor region for suppressing recombination is defined equal with or longer than the diffusion length of the carrier. This provides an effect of attaining reduction in the size of the bipolar transistor or improvement of the switching frequency of the thyristor without deteriorating the performance. Further, this has an effect of greatly improving the current gain by successively stacking above the high-doped emitter layer of the bipolar transistor, a hole barrier layer, a conduction band discontinuity relaxed layer and an emitter contact layer.
摘要:
In conventional mesa-type npn bipolar transistors, the improvement of a current gain and the miniaturization of the transistor have been unachievable simultaneously as a result of a trade-off being present between lateral diffusion and recombination of the electrons which have been injected from an emitter layer into a base layer, and a high-density base contact region—emitter mesa distance. In contrast to the above, the present invention is provided as follows: The gradient of acceptor density in the depth direction of a base layer is greater at the edge of an emitter layer than at the edge of a collector layer. Also, the distance between a first mesa structure including the emitter layer and the base layer, and a second mesa structure including the base layer and the collector layer, is controlled to range from 3 μm to 9 μm. In addition, in order for the above to be implemented with high controllability, the base layer is formed of a first p-type base layer having an acceptor of uniform density, and a second p-type base layer whose density is greater than the uniform acceptor density of the first base layer while having a gradient in the depth direction of the second base layer. These features produce the advantageous effect that it is possible to provide a high-temperature adaptable, power-switching bipolar transistor that ensures a current gain high enough for practical use and is suitable for miniaturization.
摘要:
This invention is intended to provide an HBT capable of achieving, if the HBT is a collector-up HBT, the constriction of the emitter layer disposed directly under an external base layer, and reduction in base-emitter junction capacity, or if the HBT is an emitter-up HBT, reduction in base-collector junction capacity. For the collector-up HBT, window structures around the sidewalls of a collector are used to etch either the emitter layer disposed directly under the external base layer, or an emitter contact layer For the emitter-up HBT, window structures around the sidewalls of an emitter are used to etch either the collector layer disposed directly under the external base layer, or a collector contact layer. In both HBTs, the external base layer is supported by a columnar structure to ensure mechanical strength.
摘要:
A portable health check apparatus incorporating a highly sensitive and compact expiration analysis sensor and an expiration analysis service offered to a specified user at a specified time. Hydrogen is detected using tungsten oxide produced through metalorganic chemical vapor deposition process. The apparatus has a unit for performing personal authentication by using, for example, a voiceprint of a user. The apparatus is also arranged to call up a user at a predetermined time through a cellular phone. Further, a center server receives detection information of an expiration component via a communication circuit, analyzes or statistically processes the detection information, collates a result of the analysis or statistic process with advice information stored in a database and transmits advice information based on a result of the collation from the server to the cellular phone of the user.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a contact structure not only for a semiconductor device having a hetero-junction bipolar transistor or a hetero-insulated gate field effect transistor but also for semiconductor devices at large. In a semiconductor layer of a polycrystalline or amorphous undoped III-V compound semiconductor or an alloy thereof, a through hole is formed for contact. The size of the through hole is set to permit exposure of at least part of a first conductor layer and a dielectric layer, such as an Si compound, present around the first conductor layer, and a second conductor layer is formed within the through hole so as to contact the first conductor layer. Since the semiconductor layer can be subjected to a selective dry etching for the dielectric layer, the dielectric layer is not etched at the time of forming the above through hole in the semiconductor layer. As a result an electric short-circuit of the second conductor layer with a single crystal semiconductor layer which underlies the dielectric layer can be prevented.
摘要:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device comprises the steps of forming the first semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a surface protection layer of antimony (Sb) or the material having Sb as its main component, executing the other steps necessary for the fabrication of the semiconductor device, removing the surface protection layer, and forming, on the first semiconductor layer thus exposed, the second semiconductor layer.
摘要:
A water-containing solid fuel drying apparatus that can efficiently dry with low energy consumption by effectively utilizing sensible heat and latent heat of a heating medium for drying, etc. is provided. A drying apparatus (10) that dries water-containing solid fuel includes a dryer (20) that injects scavenging gas into the interior of a drying vessel (21) in which a heat transfer pipe (22) is disposed; a dust collector (13) that removes microparticles from microparticle-containing mixed gaseous fluid that has flowed out of the drying vessel (21); a compressor (30) that compresses vapor-containing mixed gaseous fluid; a vapor heat exchanger (31) that preheats low-pressure mixed gaseous fluid with high-pressure mixed gaseous fluid compressed at the compressor (30); and a gas-liquid separator (14), in which the high-pressure mixed gaseous fluid is employed as drying gas that radiates heat by passing through the heat transfer pipe (22), that performs gas-liquid separation of water-containing scavenging gas that has flowed out of the heat transfer pipe (22) while containing condensed water of vapor generated due to heat radiation, wherein the water-containing solid fuel is dried by heating the water-containing solid fuel in the drying vessel (21) utilizing latent heat and sensible heat of the mixed gaseous fluid.
摘要:
A hetero-junction bipolar transistor is provided including emitter contact region, an emitter region made of a first semiconductor material, a base region made of a second semiconductor material having a smaller energy band gap than the first semiconductor material, a collector region made of the first semiconductor material, and a collector contact area, the regions being serially formed on a surface of a substrate in a direction parallel to the surface thereof. A buffer layer made of a third semiconductor material with an energy band gap larger than the first semiconductor material is provided between the emitter region, the base region, the collector region and the substrate surface. Emitter, base and collector electrodes are also provided, in contact with the emitter contact region, the base region, and the collector region, respectively.