W. Chen, G. Munns, D. Knightly, J. East, G. Haddad
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Abstract
Resonant tunneling bipolar transistors (RTBT's) have been systematically studied using chemical beam epitaxy (CBE) for the first time. The RTBT structure studied is a InP-based transistor, consisting of single or multiple AlAs/In/sub 0.75/Ga/sub 0.25/As/AlAs RTD's in the emitter layer of a conventional heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and an InGaAs or InGaAsP collector layer. Using the InGaAsP collector layer, the RTBT showed an improvement of breakdown voltage from 4 V to 10 V. The averaged DC /spl beta/'s are around 10 and 20 at 300 K and 77 K, respectively. In the transfer I-V characteristics, the RTBT showed 1 to 4 negative differential transconductance (NDT) peaks with peak-to-valley current ratios of 1.5 to 5.28 at 300 K. Using such NDT peaks, several RTBT digital functions were demonstrated at room temperature, including a frequency multiplier and exclusive NOR gate.<>