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USRE27052E
USRE27052E US27052DE USRE27052E US RE27052 E USRE27052 E US RE27052E US 27052D E US27052D E US 27052DE US RE27052 E USRE27052 E US RE27052E
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  • An avalanche infection diode or triode comprising a three-layer arrangement in which the middle layer. preferably epitnxially deposited. is very thin and hasa low conductance, such that when voltages are applied across the layers, avalanche breakdown occurs producing avalanche injection in the middle layer and n negative resistance in its voltage current characteristic.
  • the three layers may preferably bc the same conductivity type, or the first and third layers may be of opposite conductivity types.
  • the invention relates to a semi-conductor device ⁇ for example a diode comprising a semi-conductor body and at least two electrodes provided thereon, said device being intended to provide a current-voltage characteristic curve with a region of negative differential resistance by avalanche injection between said electrodes.
  • the invention furthermore relates to particularly eicient methods of manufacturing such semi-conductor devices.
  • the avalanche voltage a given critical field intensity in the body is attained, at which by the avalanche effect, i.e. by a pulsatory ionisation mechanism similar to that of gas discharges, holes and electrons are released in the semi-conductor body.
  • the holes thus liberated and injected into the body owing to the avalanche mechanism travel towards the negative electrode, where they can be conducted away only with difculty owing to the presence of the highdoped, n-conducting electrode zone. so that by the accumulation thereof in front of said electrode an increase in conductivity near said negative electrode is produced in the body.
  • these devices are known under the name of avalanche injection diodes.”
  • a third electrode for example a p+electrode to an n+nn+structure
  • the so-called avalanche injection triode is formed, in which the third electrode may be used to act upon the avalanche voltage between the two other electrodes by the injection of holes or as collector electrode for the injected holes.
  • this embodiment has the disadvantage that thc dimensions of the zone associated with the electrode, which dimensions determine to a high extent not only the magnitude of the avalanche voltage but also of the associated current intensity. must he extremely small. Therefore, the requirements for the fairly difficult manufacture of small electrodes are very severe with respect to thc desired reproducibility, while the whole construction is delicate. With this construction it is furthermore ditiicult to render the desired values of the avalanche voltage and of the associated current intensity independent of each other, since both are detertl to a considerable extent by the dimensions of the 'ode.
  • e invention has for its object to provide inter alia vel embodiment of such a semi-conductor device, 1 does not exhibit the said disadvantages or exi them at least only to a highly reduced extent and 1. can, moreover, be manufactured in a simple, reprole manner.
  • the invention has furthermore for bject to provide particularly suitable methods of lfacturing said embodiment.
  • the semi-conductor of a semi-conductor device of the kind set forth rises between the electrodes with the associated conductor electrode zones at least two layers of the conductivity type and having different conduction es, the layer of the lower conduction being thinner the layer of higher conduction and having a conon value which is at least a factor l() lower than of the layer of higher conduction. while one of the odes with the associated semi-conductor electrode is arranged on the layer of lower conduction and a er electrode establishes an ohmic connection to the of higher conduction.
  • the thin layer ie lower conduction is the effective layer in which ivalanche injection process is performed.
  • the thickof said layer (measured between the electrode zone e applied electrode and the layer of higher conducbeing therefore chosen as small as is required with ct to the desired avalanche voltage.
  • the conduction value of the rr-conduction layer is preferably a factor 100, prefy 1000 higher than that of the lower-conduction
  • the thickness of the higher-conduction layer is :n preferably at least equal to 50p, for example to 100g, so that during manufacture it can be easily led as a separate body and can serve c'ectively as a arting substratum for the thin layer.
  • the inche voltage in the embodiment of the invention be determined to a high extent solely by the choice e thickness of the lower-conduction layerwhereas magnitude of the associated current intensity can be independently thereof to a high extent by the choice e dimensions of the electrode and/or of the preferablylectrode zone applied to said layer and by the :e of the doping percentage of said layer. ln order tain a favourable low value of the avalanche voltthe thickness of the lower-conduction layer beneath :lectrode zone is preferably chosen to be smaller 25p..
  • ⁇ e electrode zone on the lower-conduction layer may armed in any desired shape: generally it has an ap- .mately circular or rectangular shape. the dimensions sich i.e. the diameter of the sides in the plane paralt the lower-conduction layer may be chosen to exif desired by many times its own value, the thiekl of the substratum, whereas nevertheless the ava-
  • a substantially intrinsic conducting layer to the lower-conduction layer, in which case the eleczone of the electrode on the intrinsic layer prefer- 4 ably has a conductivity type opposite that of the higherconduction layer, the layers both consist preferably of] It is possible, within the scope of the invention, to use a substantially intrinsic conducting layer to form the lower-conduction layer, in which case the electrode zone of the electrode 0n the intrinsic ayerpreferably has n conductivity type opposite that of the higher conduction layer, as described in British Pat. No. 849,476.
  • both layers consist of n-conducting or pconducting material
  • the electrode zone on the layer of the lower nor p-type conductivity respectively is of the same conductively type and has a higher conduction value, so that the semi-conductor body has a pt-p-pt-structure or an n+-n-n+structure.
  • the structure according to the invention is particularly suitable for an avalanche injection diode having two electrodes.
  • a semi-conductor device in which the said two electrodes have joined to them at least one further electrode.
  • this further electrode may be applied in a simple, advantageous manner at the side of one of the said electrodes to the lower-conduction layer. where it can fulfill the aforesaid ⁇ known functions in the immediate proximity of the active part between the two other electrodes.
  • a semi-conductor device of this kind can be manufactured in a simple manner by using out-diffusion, in which case the lowerconduction layer is obtained by diffusing out of the surface layer of a body havingt a high conduction value, owing to the presence of an impurity capable of diffusing out, said impurity by means of thermal treatment. for example in vacuo.
  • the out-diffusion process is a technique known per se, already used for the manufacture of semiconductor devices.
  • the lower-conduction layer is applied to the higher conduction layer by epitaxial agency by growing it from the vapour phase, for example by evaporation of the semi-conductor itself or by dissociation of a volatile semi-conductor.
  • this method has an additional advantage in that the difference in conduction between the two layers can be chosen very high, one independently of the other, while nevertheless the junction between the two layers can be -made very abrupt.
  • a semi-conductor device according to the invention manufactured by said method is therefore characterized in that the lower-conductionr layer,is applied by epitaxial agency to the layer of higher conduction operating as a support and a current supply.
  • FIG. l shows diagrammatically in a cross sectional view a semi-conductor device embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a graph of the current-voltage characteristic curve of the device shown in FIG. l.
  • FIG. 3 shows diagrammatically in cross section an avalanche triode according to the invention.
  • the device shown in FIG. l intended for use as an avalanche-injection diode, comprises a p-type conducting germanium body constructed from two layers, one of which l has a thickness of about 20a and has a low conduction value of about 0.1 ohm-l cmr'l and the other layer 2 has a thickness of about 80;; and has a high c0nduction value of about 200 ohm-l cml.
  • an electrode consisting of an aluminum doped, recrystallised, p-type conducting electrode zone 3 and a thin aluminum layer 4, to which a gold supply wire 5 is secured by pressing it against the place concerned of the ⁇ body by thc known pressure-bonding technique, while the whole is heated until the wire alloys to the body.
  • electrode zone 3 thus constitutes, together with the layers 1 and 2, a p+-p-p+-structure.
  • the manufacture starts from a single-crystal germanium pellet of about 80;; in thickness of the p-type conductivity, having a conduction value of about 200 ohms-1 cmrl.
  • an epitaxial p-type layer l having a conduction value of about 0.l ohtn-t-1 cm.-l is grown from the vapour phase on said plate until a thickness of about 20a is reached, for example by precipitating, in vacuo, germanium in thc vapour form on the plate or by dissociation of, for example, germanium iodide on thc surface of the semi-conductor, while the semi-conductor plate can be heated to a higher temperature in known manner in order to further crystallsation or dissociation.
  • the layet l thus formed can be provided with an aluminum electrode consisting of the aluminum layer 4 and the aluminumdoped, recrystallised zone 3.
  • an aluminum electrode consisting of the aluminum layer 4 and the aluminumdoped, recrystallised zone 3.
  • a circular aluminum spot of a diameter of 80a and a thickness of about la can be applied by evaporation via a mask, for example, of tantalum foil, after which the assembly is heated at 550 C. for 5 minutes, the recrystallised zone 3 being formed upon cooling. Since the penetration depth of said zone is not more than about la, the thickness of the layer 1 in the present case at the side of the electrode is substantially equal to that between the electrodes 3, 4
  • the thickness of the layer of lower conduction between the electrodes is to be understood to denote the thickness between the electrode zone 3 and the higherconduction layer.
  • the plate 6 can be soldered to the bottom side of the body at a temperature of for example 400 C.
  • FIG. 2 shows the current-voltage characteristic curve of the embodiment described above of the avalanche injection diode of FIG. l.
  • the contact diameter of the electrode zone 3 and of the aluminum layer 4 was about 80a, which corresponds to a surface of about 0.S 10 cm?.
  • the curvc ,l0, ll of the characteristic corresponds to a direction of the voltage applied with the negative terminal to the supply wire 5.
  • the avalanche voltage was 30 v. and the associated current intensity was about 80 ma., which will be seen from FIG. 2. After this avalanche voltage is reached, the diode exhibits, owing to avalanche injection, the branch ll of negative differential resistance.
  • a further advantage of the semiconductor device according to the invention consists in that it provides an appreciably improved symmetry of the current-voltage characteristic curves for the two senses of the voltage as compared with the known devices. With the known devices in which essentially the field concentration near an electrode of small surface is utilized, said field concentration does not occur in the other voltage direction, so that in one direction the avalanche voltage is not reached or is attained only at a much higher value of the voltage.
  • this eld concentration is not utilized or is used to a much smaller extent and the avalanche voltage is determined to a greater extent by the thickness of the lower-conduction layer, so that in the two direc ⁇ tions of the voltage an analogous characteristic curve with substantially equal or slightly different values of the avalanche voltage can be obtained. It will appear from the curve 12 of FIG. 2 that with a positive voltage at the supply wire 5 an avalanche voltage of about 20 v. was measured with substantially equal values of the associated current intensities. It appears therefrom that the device according to the invention offers the possibility of obtaining a diode which may be employed in two voltage directions, with values of the avalanche voltages which may, if desired, be substantially equal or differ from each other.
  • FIGURE 3 shows diagrammatically an example of an avalanche triode according to the invention, which only differs from the diode according to FIGURE l, in that a further nJr electrodes 8, 9 is applied [a] al a short distance from the pt electrodes 3, 4, for instance at a distance of 20 microns.
  • This further electrode consists of the n t* recrystalliscd layer 8 and the metal part 9, and may be produced by subsequent evaporation and alloying of a gold-antimony alloy containing for instance 2% antimony.
  • a supply wire 10 is provided in the same way as on electrodes 3, 4.
  • the avalanche-voltage 30 of FIGURE 2 can be influenced and varied depending on the value of the voltage difference between l0 and 6. It is also possible to use electrodes 8, 9 as collector electrode, in which case it is biased in the reverse direction by applying a positive voltage. In the latter case it is more favourable to have the electrodes 8, 9 in annular form surrounding electrodes 4, 5.
  • a higher-conduction layer may be provided on the lower-conduction layer, at least locally.
  • a semiconductor device adapted to operate by avalanche injection comprising a semiconductive body and at least two opposed electrode connections to said body, said bodyV including between the electrodes at least first, second, and third successive juxtaposed zones of the same conductivity type, the second said zone being thinner than the third said zone and having a relatively low conductance at least a factor l0 lower than that of said third zone, one of said electrodes being connected in an ohmic connection to said third zone, the said first zone having a much higher conductance than that of said second zone, the other electrode being connected to the said first zone, and means for applying across the two electrodes a voltage of such a polarity as to bias one of the junctions between the three zones in the forward direction and of such a magnitude as to cause avalanche injection to occur within the-second zone at an avalanche voltage primarily determined by the thickness of said second zone, whereby the device exhibits a current-voltage characteristic with a negative resistance region.
  • a semiconductor device as set forth in claim l in the first zone has a much smaller surface area the ⁇ second and third zones.
  • a semiconductor device as set forth in claim 1 in the three zones form a p+pp+ structure.
  • a semiconductor device as set forth in claim l in a third electrode is connected to said second zone.
  • a semiconductor device as set forth in claim l in the three zones form nim-n* structure.
  • a .semiconductor device adapted to operate by arae injection comprising a monocrystalline semiconvc body and at least two opposed electrode connecto said body, said body including between the elecs at least rst, second, and third successive juxtal zones, the first and third zones being of opposite uctivity types, the second :one being of intrinsic or antially intrinsic material of a conductii'ity type the as that of the first or third zones, the second zone i in the form of a thin layer thinner than the third and having a relatively low conductance at least .-tor ten lower than that of said third zone, one of the device exhibits a current-voltage characteristic with a negative resistance region.

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