Semiconductor device and method having multiple subcollectors formed on a common wafer
View Patent ↗A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having multiple subcollectors which are formed in a common wafer, in order to provide multiple structures having different characteristic and frequency response are provided. The subcollectors may be provided using different doses or different material implants resulting in devices having different optimum unity current gain cutoff frequency (f T ) and breakdown voltage (BV CEO and BV CBO ) on a common wafer.
1. First and second bipolar transistors formed on a p-substrate, said first transistor comprising:
a Sb subcollector;
a n-epi collector;
a SiGe polysilicon p-doped extrinsic base;
a SiGe silicon single crystal intrinsic base; and
said second transistor comprising:
an As subcollector having a sheet resistance at 50–200Ω/square;
a n-epi collector;
a SiGe polysilicon extrinsic base; and
a SiGe single crystal extrinsic base, said second transistor providing ESD protection as a result of the selection of As as a subcollector which provides for lateral ballasting.
2. The semiconductor structure of claim 1 , further comprising a polysilicon emitter:
forming a SiGe film or SiGeC film on the wafer surface for formation of a transistor base region;
forming an emitter structure on the SiGe or SiGeC film.