Silicon-germanium is an important material that is used for the fabrication of SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors and strained Si metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOSmetal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS)) transistors for advanced complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOScomplementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)) and BiCMOS (bipolar CMOS) technologies. It also has interesting optical properties that are increasingly being applied in silicon-based photonic devices. The key benefit of silicon-germanium is its use in combination with silicon to produce a heterojunction. Strain is incorporated into the silicon-germanium or the silicon during growth, which also gives improved physical properties such as higher values of mobility. This chapter reviews the properties of silicon-germanium, beginning with the electronic properties and then progressing to the optical properties. The growth of silicon-germanium is considered, with particular emphasis on the chemical vapour deposition technique and selective epitaxy. Finally, the properties of polycrystalline silicon-germanium are discussed in the context of its use as a gate material for MOS transistors.
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Haddara, Y. M., Ashburn, P., & Bagnall, D. M. (2017). Silicon-germanium: properties, growth and applications. In Springer Handbooks (p. 1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_22
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