Degradation of Junction Parameters of an Electrically Stressed NPN Bipolar Transistor
Author(s) -
N. Toufik,
F. Pélanchon,
P. Mialhe
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
active and passive electronic components
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1026-7034
pISSN - 0882-7516
DOI - 10.1155/2001/53209
Subject(s) - bipolar junction transistor , degradation (telecommunications) , materials science , stress (linguistics) , transistor , common emitter , heterostructure emitter bipolar transistor , optoelectronics , current (fluid) , junction temperature , electrical engineering , voltage , power (physics) , engineering , physics , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics
The effect of an electrical ageing on npn bipolar transistor has been studied. The currentgain decreases substantially and the electrical properties are discussed. The emitter-basejunction parameters are degraded during the electrical stress experiments. Both theamplitude and the rate of this degradation depend on the stress duration. Theevaluation of these parameters allows to discuss hot carrier degradation process, toestimate the stress magnitude and to control the device
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