Development of Fabrication Technology for the Permeable Base Transistor.

Abstract

Efforts during the first year of this contract have concentrated on the development of the key processes required for fabrication of the permeable base transistor: sub-micrometer lithography and epitaxial overgrowth. Electron beam lithography was used, with a dry-process resist and ion milling, to produce 0.25 micrometer lines. The arsenic trichloride epitaxial process was used to embed metal structures in a single crystal of gallium arsenide. High-resolution electron microscopy revealed that the epitaxial overgrowth was imperfect, leaving voids in the single crystal which are often too small to be resolved using conventional electron microscopy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA105532

Entities

People

  • G. H. Westphal
  • W. R. Frensley

Organizations

  • Texas Instruments

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Electron Beam Lithography
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Epitaxial Growth
  • Equations
  • Fabrication
  • Fermi Levels
  • Gallium Arsenides
  • Lithography
  • Microscopes
  • Microscopy
  • Photolithography
  • Resistance
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene