학술논문

Source dependence and technology scaling effects on the radiation tolerance of SiGe HBTs at extreme dose and fluence levels
Document Type
Conference
Source
2007 9th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 2007. RADECS 2007. 9th European Conference on. :1-5 Sep, 2007
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Silicon germanium
Germanium silicon alloys
Large Hadron Collider
Protons
Neutrons
BiCMOS integrated circuits
Heterojunction bipolar transistors
Degradation
Detectors
NASA
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
gamma
High Energy Physics (HEP)
proton
neutron
Silicon Germanium (SiGe)
HBT
Language
ISSN
0379-6566
Abstract
We investigate the response of SiGe HBTs exposed to high fluence and total dose levels of proton, neutron and gamma irradiation typically encountered in high energy physics experiments. The transistor radiation tolerance is evaluated via a comparison of excess base current, base current ideality, and current gain degradation. The results indicate that the observed device degradation may be dominated either by conventional SRH recombination or radiation-induced carrier tunneling, depending on the technology generation and radiation source.