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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hajime Yagi, Tokyo, JA;
Tadaharu Tsuyuki, Isehara, JA;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 34 ; 357 37 ; 357 40 ; 357 88 ; 357 89 ; 357 90 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor device having a high current amplification gain which includes a low impurity concentration in the emitter region of the device, an injected minority carrier diffusion length L greater than the width of the emitter, and a high impurity concentration region of the same type as the emitter overlying at least a portion of said emitter region which provides a built-in-field where there is a drift current of minority carriers back toward the base region. The built-in field is larger than kT(qL) so that the drift current adjacent the built-in-field substantially cancels the minority carrier diffusion current injected from the base region.