Abstract:
A method for making a transistor having base, collector, and emitter regions, where the impurity doping profile of the intrinsic (32) and extrinsic (22) base regions can closely approximate that which is ideal for the transistor. The extrinsic (22) and intrinsic (32) base regions are formed in separate steps, where the extrinsic base region (22) is formed first, followed by formation of the intrinsic base region (32). The portion of the extrinsic base region located over the area where the intrinsic base region is to be formed is removed, leaving an opening (26) through which both the emitter (30) and the intrinsic base regions (32) are formed. Thus, the effect of the step in which the extrinsic base region is formed is removed prior to formation of the intrinsic base region. Furthermore, the extrinsic base region is protected during formation of the intrinsic base region. This technique can be applied to processes using either ion implantation or diffusion to form the emitter and base regions of the transistor.
Abstract:
A method for providing on a substrate a layer of a metal silicide such as molybdenum silicide and/or tantalum silicide and/or tungsten silicide and/or rhodium silicide which includes coevaporating silicon and the respective metal onto a substrate, and then heat treating the substrate to form the metal silicide.
Abstract:
A method for improving the current confinement capacity of a double heterojunction laser by using a high energy implantation of oxygen in the regions of an injection laser surrounding the active region of such laser so as to make such regions semi-insulating.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing semiconductor devices of the type wherein regions of oxide such as silicon oxide recessed or inset in a silicon substrate are formed by oxidation of the silicon with the use of a masking layer protecting locally against the oxidation. In order to prevent the formation of a projecting oxide beak under the masking layer a nitride oxidation mask is applied directly to the substrate which has been previously ion-implanted to a controlled depth and then annealed to generate a dense dislocation network array on the substrate surface to prevent mechanical stress defects which normally would occur when a nitride mask is applied directly to a substrate.