Physical characteristics modification of a SiGe-HBT semiconductor device for performance improvement in a terahertz detecting system  

作　　者：Hamed Ghodsi Hassan Kaatuzian 

机构地区：[1]Photonics Research Laboratory(P.R.L.),Electrical Engineering Department,Amir Kabir University of Technology

出　　处：《Journal of Semiconductors》2015年第5期61-65,共5页半导体学报（英文版）

摘　　要：In order to improve the performance of a pre-designed direct conversion terahertz detector which is implemented in a 0.25 μm-SiGe-BiCMOS process, we propose some slight modifications in the bipolar section of the SiGe device physical design. Comparison of our new proposed device and the previously reported device is done by SILVACO TCAD software simulation and we have used previous experimentally reported data to confirm our software simulations. Our proposed modifications in device structural design show a present device responsivity improvement of about 10% from 1 to 1.1 A/W while the bandwidth improvement is about 218 GHz. The minimum noise equivalent power at detector output is increased by about 14.3% and finally power consumption per pixel at the maximum responsivity is decreased by about 5%.In order to improve the performance of a pre-designed direct conversion terahertz detector which is implemented in a 0.25 μm-SiGe-BiCMOS process, we propose some slight modifications in the bipolar section of the SiGe device physical design. Comparison of our new proposed device and the previously reported device is done by SILVACO TCAD software simulation and we have used previous experimentally reported data to confirm our software simulations. Our proposed modifications in device structural design show a present device responsivity improvement of about 10% from 1 to 1.1 A/W while the bandwidth improvement is about 218 GHz. The minimum noise equivalent power at detector output is increased by about 14.3% and finally power consumption per pixel at the maximum responsivity is decreased by about 5%.

关 键 词：TERAHERTZ SIGE HBT physical structure direct conversion detector 

分 类 号：TN303[电子电信—物理电子学]