CA1092723A - High speed semiconductor device - Google Patents

High speed semiconductor device

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Publication number
CA1092723A
CA1092723A CA294,653A CA294653A CA1092723A CA 1092723 A CA1092723 A CA 1092723A CA 294653 A CA294653 A CA 294653A CA 1092723 A CA1092723 A CA 1092723A
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base
emitter
region
collector
regions
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French (fr)
Inventor
Leroy L. Chang
Leo Esaki
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International Business Machines Corp
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H10D—INORGANIC ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
    • H10D48/00—Individual devices not covered by groups H10D1/00 - H10D44/00
    • H10D48/30—Devices controlled by electric currents or voltages
    • H10D48/32—Devices controlled by only the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H10D48/36—Unipolar devices
    • H10D48/362—Unipolar transistors having ohmic electrodes on emitter-like, base-like, and collector-like regions, e.g. hot electron transistors [HET], metal base transistors [MBT], resonant tunnelling transistors [RTT], bulk barrier transistors [BBT], planar doped barrier transistors [PDBT] or charge injection transistors [CHINT]

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  • Bipolar Transistors (AREA)
CA294,653A 1977-06-09 1978-01-10 High speed semiconductor device Expired CA1092723A (en)

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US805,055 1977-06-09
US05/805,055 US4173763A (en) 1977-06-09 1977-06-09 Heterojunction tunneling base transistor

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US (1) US4173763A (forum.php)
JP (1) JPS544576A (forum.php)
CA (1) CA1092723A (forum.php)
DE (1) DE2804568A1 (forum.php)
FR (1) FR2394174A1 (forum.php)
GB (1) GB1598145A (forum.php)
IT (1) IT1158445B (forum.php)

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FR2394174A1 (fr) 1979-01-05
JPS544576A (en) 1979-01-13
IT7819704A0 (it) 1978-01-27
GB1598145A (en) 1981-09-16
DE2804568C2 (forum.php) 1989-03-16
US4173763A (en) 1979-11-06
FR2394174B1 (forum.php) 1980-08-29
JPS5710580B2 (forum.php) 1982-02-26
IT1158445B (it) 1987-02-18
DE2804568A1 (de) 1978-12-21

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