Title page for ETD etd-07182005-172838


Type of Document Master's Thesis
Author Ahmed, Adnan
Author's Email Address gte286u@mail.gatech.edu
URN etd-07182005-172838
Title Study of Low-Temperature Effects in Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Technology
Degree Master of Science
Department Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title
Dr. John D. Cressler Committee Member
Dr. John Papapolymerou Committee Member
Dr. Joy Laskar Committee Member
Keywords
  • Heterojunction
  • HBT
  • Low Temperature
  • dc Characteristics
  • SiGe
  • Silicon-Germanium
  • technology generation
  • Static Characteristics
  • Cryogenic
  • scaling
Date of Defense 2005-07-18
Availability unrestricted
Abstract
This thesis investigates the effects of low temperatures on Silicon Germanium (SiGe) Hterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBT) BiCMOS technology. A comprehensive set of dc measurements were taken on first, second, third and fourth generation IBM SiGe technology over a range of temperatures (room temperature to 43K for first generation, and room temperature to 15K for the rest). This work is unique in the sense that this sort of comprehensive study of dc characteristics on four SiGe HBT technology generations over a wide range of temperatures has never been done before to the best of the author’s knowledge.
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