1 Bipolar Junction Transistor Models Professor K.N.Bhat Center for Excellence in Nanoelectronics ECE Department Indian Institute of Science Bangalore-560.

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1 Bipolar Junction Transistor Models Professor K.N.Bhat Center for Excellence in Nanoelectronics ECE Department Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

2 Bipolar Junction Transistor Modeling Topics for presentation: Merits of BJT BJT types and structures Current components,current gain and breakdown voltage Ebers –Moll model for BJT and Breakdown voltage BJT with non uniform base region doping Cut off frequency and effect of base spreading resistance Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor and models

3 FETsBJTs Cut-Off Freq and Transit time Threshold Voltage Channel Length dependent Base Width dependent Strongly depends upon doping concentration and thickness of the channel layer Practically constant (diode cut in voltage) and depends on the E g of the semiconductor Parameter Comparative Merits of FETs and BJTs

4 FETsBJTs Charge Storage Effects Trans- Conductance g m Minimum – Device is basically fast charge storage reduces Switching Speed Depends on (V GS - V Th ), µ n, W, C ox or C s and L Highest in BJT per unit area. Depends upon collector current which exponentially depends on V BE /V T Parameter

5 BJT types Alloy Junction – Uniform base (germanium and silicon transistors) Planar Junction Transistor-graded base (Silicon transistors) Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor-Uniform base and graded base (Transistors using Compound semiconductors- Silicon/ silicon Germanium, AlGaAs/ GaAs)

6 Alloy Junction Transistor

7 Planar Junction diode

8 Planar Junction Transistor

9 Monolithic Transistors without Isolation

10 BJT in Integrated Circuit with Isolation

11 Bipolar Junction Transistor (Uniformly doped regions) Current Components WEWE is base transport factor is Emitter efficiency

12 Carrier Density Distribution (BJT biased in Active region)

13 Common Base Characteristics

14 Common Emitter Characteristics Change due to Early effect

15 Base width Modulation (Early Effect) Output resistance is reduced

16 Current gain of narrow base transistors High when total emitter doping is high

17 Collector –Base Junction Breakdown Voltage, BV CBO Junction breakdown takes place when the carrier multiplication factor ‘M’ becomes infinite. ‘M’ depends upon the initiating carrier and is related to the applied voltage, V and the breakdown voltage BV CBO. n=6 for PNP transistor n=4 for NPN transistor

18 Maximum sustaining voltage BV CES in the Common emitter configuration At V CES, I C tends to infinity. This is possible when tends to infinity because in CE mode I B is constant

19 In high Voltage transistors the is deliberately made small to achieve V CES as close to BV CBO as possible

20 Ebers –Moll Equations for BJT Transistor Operating modes: 1.Normal mode -active, saturation and cut off. 2. Inverse mode – emitter as collector and collector as emitter EBERS –MOLL model gives a set of equations encompassing all the four operating regions of operation in circuit simulations

21 Transistor operating in Normal Mode or Forward active mode

22 Transistor operating in Inverse Mode or Reverse active mode

23 Transistor operating in Saturation Mode

24 Ebers Moll Equations Valid for all combinations of V EB and V CB Here we have

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26 NPN-Transistor having Non-uniformly doped Base P-region (graded base ) Base Region

27 The doping gradation gives rise to an electric field E(x) which arises to counter the diffusion of holes. E(x) aids the flow of electrons in the x direction In thermal equilibrium

28 Carrier transport is by drift and diffusion in Graded base transistor Velocity of carriers is three to four times higher compared to transistors with uniformly doped base region Transit time of carriers, Cut off frequency, Smaller base width is required for higher cutoff frequency

29 Base spreading resistance depends upon base region doping concentration N A and base width W

30 For high speed, W B should be reduced. This increases r bb’ affecting the maximum operation frequency, f m, at which power gain is unity. f m is given by Need for modifications in BJT

31 Conflicting Requirements for f T and f m Cutoff frequency f T can be increased by reducing base width ‘W’. This increases and lowers f m To improve f m, should be reduced

32 r bb’ is the base spreading resistance and is proportional to the sheet resistance which varies inversely as total integrated doping concentration (= N A W) in the base region. N A should be increased when W B is reduced so that r bb’ does not increase. It leads to (1) increase in C TE, (2) reduction in β and (3) fall in D nB These conflicting requirements are met using an emitter region of wider band gap material. This BJT is the Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT)

33 Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) n E p n n + collector GaAs AlGaAs B C n-AlGaAs / p-GaAs / n + GaAs HBT First HBT in the history of BJT Possible because of the lattice match between GaAs and AlGaAs

34 For PNP transistor we have seen Similarly for NPN transistor, we have

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37 E B C n-AlGaAs / p-GaAs / n + GaAs HBT n=10 18 /cm 3 N + GaAs substrate 0.5  m GaAs collector 0.15  m GaAs base P=10 18 /cm 3 Emitter AlGaAs N D =5x10 17 /cm  m GaAs 0.2  m n + > /cm 3

38 AlGaAs /GaAs /GaAs HBTs fabricated at BELL Labs showed the following: very low values of  =30 Higher values of  were observed in Devices with larger areas. The  increased from 30 t0 about 1800 when the surface of the base region was passivated by chemical treatment to saturate the dangling bonds with sulfur. But the  values were unstable. Several approaches have been used to stabilize the . The most successful one has been chemical treatment with (NH 4 ) 2 S x and protect with PECVD silicon nitride

39 n Si p SiGe n - Si n + Si WBWB Band gap of Si 1-x Ge x depends upon x. Strained layer Si 1-x Ge x without dislocations can be realized with thin layers of base Silicon Germanium HBT (SiGe HBT)

40 Strained Layer Epitaxy for Lattice mismatched materials materials Possible means of growing lattice – mismatched materials.

41 Solid Line : Calculated thickness above which it becomes energetically favorable to form misfit dislocations in strained layer GeSi grown on Si Points: experimental data for low temperature MBE growth. Dashed Line : Trend calculated for simple model of kinetically limited defect formation

42 Unstrained Ge x Si 1-x Strained Ge x Si 1-x on Unstrained Ge x/2 Si 1-x/2 Strained Ge x Si 1-x on Unstrained Si Strained Si on Unstrained Ge x Si 1-x Calculations showing the diagrammatic effect of strain upon semiconductor band gaps

43 Benefits of SiGe HBT over Si BJT Collector Currents I C is larger for a given V BE

44 Benefits of SiGe HBT over Si BJT (Contd….) I C increase improves  I C increase decreases the emitter charging time. This improves the switching speed.

45 Effect of grading the band gap in the Base Region n p n x0 E g (0) E g (x) E g (W B ) WBWB E E g (x) = E g (0) -  E g (x)

46 Electric Field due to bandgap gradation is given by. For a linear gradation For = 0.15 eV and W B = 0.1  m Electric Field = 0.15/10 -5 = 15 KV / cm Cut off frequencies up to 200GHz have been achieved

47 Summary BJTs are still popular for achieving better driving capability particularly when the load is capacitive. Ebers Moll model enables us to estimate the currents for all modes of BJT operation. Base region can be reduced and doping concentration in the base can be increased with HBTs. Base region with graded doping and graded band gap lead to higher cut of frequencies due to reduction in transit time as a result of the built in electric field