RELIABILITY OF MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES FROM EMITTERBASE JUNCTION CHARACTERIZATION

Document Type : Original Article

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Laboratoire de physique appliquée et d’automatique LP2A, Université de Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy ,66860 Perpignan Cedex, France.

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The current-voltage characteristics of microelectronic devices are used to compare
commercial components. A double exponential model (VDEM) introduces physical
parameters to characterise the junction properties of bipolar transistor.
The method leads to differentiate the high and low power operating modes of devices
and shows that values of the junction parameters can be associated with each
manufacture and related to quality and reliability control.

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