Chao-Min Chang, Shu-Han Chen, Sheng-Yu Wang, J. Chyi
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Abstract
We report on the characterization of InP-based heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with low turn-on voltage and high current gain by using InGaAsSb as the base layer. The low turn-on voltage of 0.43 V is attributed to the smaller band gap of the In0.25Ga0.75As072Sb0.28 material. High current gain of 74 is observed despite a heavily Be-doped (9.0×1019 cm−3) base is used, suggesting a long minority carrier lifetime (τn) in the InGaAsSb material. Moreover, low specific contact resistivity of 5×10−8 Ω-cm2 is also demonstrated on separate In0.25Ga0.75As072Sb0.28 samples.