摘要:
The present invention provides a hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT) whichis so designed that the emitter injection efficiency is improved, the base transit time and base resistance are reduced and yet the lowering of the collector injection efficiency is suppressed, by forming at least one quantum well in a base region of the HBT and determining the width of one of the quantum levels formed in the quantum well and the energy in a barrier layer constituting the quantum well is within kT/2.
摘要:
A compound semiconductor structure in the form of a superlattice film with effectively graded average composition, comprising an alternating lamination of two kinds of layers of different composition to form pairs of layers, the ratio of the thickness of one layer to the thickness of the other in said pairs of layers being gradually varied in the direction of thickness throughout successive pairs, thereby the average composition being effectively graded throughout the pairs. In a hetero-junction field effect transistor, the layer of effectively graded composition is used between a semiconductor layer making low resistance contact with a current-supplying electrode and a semiconductor layer where a two dimensional channel is to be formed. In case of AlGaAs/GaAs system, the Al composition is varied. When the superlattice film is heat-treated, Al in the AlGaAs layer diffuses into the GaAs layer, yielding a film with actually smoothly graded Al mole fraction.
摘要:
A field-effect transistor is composed of a substrate, an electron transport layer and an electron supply layer formed sequentially on the substrate, wherein the electron transport layer and the electron supply layer are formed of a nitride semiconductor, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the electron supply layer; and two high impurity concentration regions located in a depth direction directly below the source electrode and the drain electrode, respectively, the two high impurity concentration regions being formed to sandwich a two-dimensional electron gas layer formed between the electron transport layer and the electron supply layer. The two high impurity concentration regions each have a higher impurity concentration than the electron transport layer and the electron supply layer located directly below the gate electrode. The electron supply layer has a substantially flat surface between the source electrode and the gate electrode and between the drain electrode and the gate electrode.
摘要:
In a semiconductor device using tunnel current and a barrier layer, arrangements are provided to lower the resistance of the semiconductor device. In particular, arrangements are provided to lower the parasitic resistance of a device such as a field effect transistor or an HBT, as well as to provide high-performance low noise amplifiers, mixers and the like using such reduced resistance semiconductor devices. To achieve this reduced resistance, carrier concentration or effective mass is designed not to be uniform in at least one of the semiconductor layers holding a barrier layer therebetween. For example, in an area near the barrier layer, the carrier concentration distribution can be large or the effective mass distribution can be small.
摘要:
A semiconductor member has a structure wherein a first semiconductor layer is held between second and third semiconductor layers which have forbidden band widths greater than a forbidden band width of the first semiconductor layer, and wherein only the second semiconductor layer which is formed on a side of the first semiconductor layer close to a substrate is doped with impurities. The semiconductor member constructs the depletion type with the first and second semiconductor layers, and the enhancement type with the first and third semiconductor layers. A semiconductor device can be properly formed in the enhancement or depletion type by selectively connecting the semiconductor layers.
摘要:
A gallium nitride rectifying device includes a p-type gallium nitride based semiconductor layer and an n-type gallium nitride based semiconductor layer, the two layers forming a pn junction with each other. The p-type gallium nitride based semiconductor layer has a carrier trap (level) density of not more than 1×1018 cm−3, or the n-type gallium nitride based semiconductor layer has a carrier trap (level) density of not more than 1×1016 cm−3.
摘要翻译:氮化镓整流装置包括p型氮化镓基半导体层和n型氮化镓基半导体层,所述两层形成彼此的pn结。 p型氮化镓系半导体层具有1×10 18 cm -3以下的载流子阱(等级)密度,或n型氮化镓系半导体层的载流子阱(水平)密度不大于 1×1016cm-3。
摘要:
A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a plurality of semiconductor electronic members including a field effect transistor, intended for suppressing a sidegating effect on the field effect transistor, wherein accumulation of majority carriers of the field effect transistor is suppressed at the interface of heterojunction in the buffering compound semiconductor layer and the interface between the substrate and the buffering compound semiconductor layer in the device isolation region so that the discontinuity of energy forbidden bands of the semiconductors caused at the interfaces does not form a potential barrier upon conduction of the carriers into the substrate, whereby the sidegating effect from the resistor element, etc. placed adjacently to the field effect transistor can be decreased drastically.
摘要:
The present invention provides a module for optical transmitter formed as an opto-electronic integrated circuit (OEIC) for reducing the heat generated at a driver circuit for modulator and stabilizing the thermal fluctuation in an optical modulator. For promoting the heat dissipation of the top face of the driver circuit for modulator of the OEIC chip, a protruding cooling plate is formed on metal wiring. A part of a semiconductor substrate present between the optical modulator and the driver circuit for modulator is thinned or removed. Further, a carrier for mounting thereon the OEIC chip is divided into two parts, and a peltier cooler is connected to the optical modulator side. This achieves the promotion of heat dissipation from the top face of the driver circuit for modulator, the thermal separation between the optical modulator and the driver circuit for modulator, and the temperature stabilization due to the peltier cooler. The temperature rise and the temperature change of the optical modulator are suppressed, so that it is possible to manufacture a module for optical transmitter showing no characteristic deterioration, in which an optical modulator and a driver circuit for modulator are formed as an OEIC chip.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser which has an active layer of a lattice strain of less than 2% of a thickness mean on a GaAs substrate and can be used in a long wavelength band of 1.3 &mgr;m band or more and a photo module which uses the semiconductor laser are provided. The semiconductor laser device has a first semiconductor layer 5 and second semiconductor layers 4, the layer 5 and the layers 4 forming a type-II heterojunction structure, in which an energy of conduction band edge of said first conductor layer 5 is larger than the energy of conduction band of said second semiconductor layers 4. The device has third semiconductor layers 6 as barrier layers formed on both sides of said type-II heterojunction structure. In the device, the second semiconductor layers 4 are arranged on both sides of the first semiconductor layer 5 and the thickness of the first semiconductor layer 5 is set in such a degree of thickness that a wave function of an electron of a quantum well formed by making the second semiconductor layer well layers is coupled.
摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device using a polycrystalline compound semiconductor with a low resistance as a low resistance layer, and its fabrication method. The above polycrystalline compound semiconductor layer is doped with C or Be as impurities in a large amount, and is extremely low in resistance. The polycrystalline compound semiconductor layer is formed by either of a molecular beam epitaxy method, an organometallic vapor phase epitaxy method and an organometallic molecular beam epitaxy method under the condition that a substrate temperature is 450.degree. C. or less and the ratio of partial pressure of a V-group element to a III-group element is 50 or more. In the case that the above polycrystaline compound semiconductor layer with a low resistance is used as an extrinsic base region of an heterojunction bipolar transistor, since the extrinsic base region can be formed on a dielectric film formed on a collector, it is possible to reduce the base-collector capacitance, and hence to enhance the operational speed of the heterojunction bipolar transistor.