GB2356286B - Low noise semiconductor amplifier - Google Patents

Low noise semiconductor amplifier

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GB2356286B
GB2356286B GB9915855A GB9915855A GB2356286B GB 2356286 B GB2356286 B GB 2356286B GB 9915855 A GB9915855 A GB 9915855A GB 9915855 A GB9915855 A GB 9915855A GB 2356286 B GB2356286 B GB 2356286B
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low noise
semiconductor amplifier
noise semiconductor
amplifier
low
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James Rodger Leitch
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H03ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03FAMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/26Modifications of amplifiers to reduce influence of noise generated by amplifying elements
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/02Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/06Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions
    • H01L29/08Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions with semiconductor regions connected to an electrode carrying current to be rectified, amplified or switched and such electrode being part of a semiconductor device which comprises three or more electrodes
    • H01L29/0821Collector regions of bipolar transistors
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/66Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor controllable by only the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H01L29/70Bipolar devices
    • H01L29/72Transistor-type devices, i.e. able to continuously respond to applied control signals
    • H01L29/73Bipolar junction transistors
    • H01L29/735Lateral transistors
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/66Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor controllable by only the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H01L29/70Bipolar devices
    • H01L29/72Transistor-type devices, i.e. able to continuously respond to applied control signals
    • H01L29/73Bipolar junction transistors
    • H01L29/737Hetero-junction transistors
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H03ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03FAMPLIFIERS
    • H03F2200/00Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers
    • H03F2200/372Noise reduction and elimination in amplifier

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Ceramic Engineering (AREA)
  • Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Bipolar Transistors (AREA)
GB9915855A 1999-07-07 1999-07-07 Low noise semiconductor amplifier Expired - Fee Related GB2356286B (en)

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GB9915855A GB2356286B (en) 1999-07-07 1999-07-07 Low noise semiconductor amplifier

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GB9915855D0 GB9915855D0 (en) 1999-09-08
GB2356286A GB2356286A (en) 2001-05-16
GB2356286B true GB2356286B (en) 2002-10-23

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Citations (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1047378A (en) * 1964-09-18
GB1074032A (en) * 1963-12-13 1967-06-28 Mullard Ltd Improvements in and relating to semiconductor devices
GB1439217A (en) * 1972-10-25 1976-06-16 Gen Electric Semiconductor amplifying devices and circuits therefor
US3992677A (en) * 1974-04-30 1976-11-16 Sony Corporation Muting circuit
EP0520482A2 (en) * 1991-06-28 1992-12-30 Texas Instruments Incorporated Multiple layer collector structure for bipolar transistors
WO1997027630A1 (en) * 1994-10-07 1997-07-31 National Semiconductor Corporation Bipolar transistor having a collector region with selective doping profile and process for manufacturing the same
US5719082A (en) * 1995-08-25 1998-02-17 Micron Technology, Inc. Angled implant to improve high current operation of bipolar transistors
WO1998009335A1 (en) * 1996-08-29 1998-03-05 The Whitaker Corporation Monolithic integrated circuit including bipolar transistors having nonuniformly doped collector base junction

Patent Citations (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1074032A (en) * 1963-12-13 1967-06-28 Mullard Ltd Improvements in and relating to semiconductor devices
GB1047378A (en) * 1964-09-18
GB1439217A (en) * 1972-10-25 1976-06-16 Gen Electric Semiconductor amplifying devices and circuits therefor
US3992677A (en) * 1974-04-30 1976-11-16 Sony Corporation Muting circuit
EP0520482A2 (en) * 1991-06-28 1992-12-30 Texas Instruments Incorporated Multiple layer collector structure for bipolar transistors
WO1997027630A1 (en) * 1994-10-07 1997-07-31 National Semiconductor Corporation Bipolar transistor having a collector region with selective doping profile and process for manufacturing the same
US5719082A (en) * 1995-08-25 1998-02-17 Micron Technology, Inc. Angled implant to improve high current operation of bipolar transistors
WO1998009335A1 (en) * 1996-08-29 1998-03-05 The Whitaker Corporation Monolithic integrated circuit including bipolar transistors having nonuniformly doped collector base junction

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GB9915855D0 (en) 1999-09-08

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