Resonant-tunneling mixed-signal circuit technology

被引:27
作者
Seabaugh, A [1 ]
Brar, B [1 ]
Broekaert, T [1 ]
Morris, F [1 ]
van der Wagt, P [1 ]
Frazier, G [1 ]
机构
[1] Raytheon Syst Co, Dallas, TX 75266 USA
关键词
D O I
10.1016/S0038-1101(99)00074-X
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A large-scale integration (LSI) InP-based technology is described for high-speed mixed-signal circuits. The monolithic 75-mm wafer process uses molecular beam epitaxy, Inf etch stop layers, an electron-beam-defined gate, cion-alloyed ohmic contacts, and 10 mask levels to provide resonant tunneling diodes (RTD's), 0.25- or 0.5-mu m gate-length high electron mobility transistors (HEMT's), Schottky diodes, resistors, capacitors and two and a half levels of interconnect. Resonant tunneling circuits described here for the first time include a 2.5-GHz, ten stage, tapped shift register, a 6.5-GHz clock generator and a multivalued-to-binary converter. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
引用
收藏
页码:1355 / 1365
页数:11
相关论文
共 16 条
[1]  
Brar B, 1997, IEEE/CORNELL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN HIGH SPEED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND CIRCUITS, PROCEEDINGS, P28, DOI 10.1109/CORNEL.1997.649339
[2]  
Broekaert TPE, 1997, IEEE/CORNELL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN HIGH SPEED SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND CIRCUITS, PROCEEDINGS, P132, DOI 10.1109/CORNEL.1997.649351
[3]   A monolithic 4-bit 2-Gsps resonant tunneling analog-to-digital converter [J].
Broekaert, TPE ;
Brar, B ;
van der Wagt, JPA ;
Seabaugh, AC ;
Morris, FJ ;
Moise, TS ;
Beam, EA ;
Frazier, GA .
IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, 1998, 33 (09) :1342-1349
[4]  
KAWAHITO S, 1991, INT S MULT VAL LOG, P330
[5]  
LEE K, 1993, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
[6]   High-speed and low-power operation of a resonant tunneling logic gate MOBILE [J].
Maezawa, K ;
Matsuzaki, H ;
Yamamoto, M ;
Otsuji, T .
IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS, 1998, 19 (03) :80-82
[7]  
MICHEEL LJ, 1993, INT SYM MVL, P164
[8]   EXPERIMENTAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF PSEUDOMORPHIC INGAAS/ALAS RESONANT-TUNNELING DIODES [J].
MOISE, TS ;
KAO, YC ;
KATZ, AJ ;
BROEKAERT, TPE ;
CELII, FG .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 1995, 78 (10) :6305-6317
[9]   Physics-based RTD current-voltage equation [J].
Schulman, JN ;
Santos, HJD ;
Chow, DH .
IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS, 1996, 17 (05) :220-222
[10]   IN0.53GA0.47AS/ALAS RESONANT-TUNNELING DIODES WITH SWITCHING TIME OF 1.5PS [J].
SHIMIZU, N ;
NAGATSUMA, T ;
WAHO, T ;
SHINAGAWA, M ;
YAITA, M ;
YAMAMOTO, M .
ELECTRONICS LETTERS, 1995, 31 (19) :1695-1697