A new polysilicon process for a bipolar device—PSA technology

A new polysilicon process has been developed to obtain high packing density, high speed, and low-power LSI's. The new process, called the polysilicon self-aligned (PSA) method is based on a new fabrication concept for dimensional reduction and does not require fine patterning and accurate mask alignment. For an application example of this new method, an emitter-coupled logic (ECL) gate with 0.6 ns delay time, 0.5 pJ power-delay product, and 6400 µm2gate area has been achieved. Futhermore, by introducing a polysilicon diode (PSD) and Schottky barrier diode (SBD) to the PSA method, a low-power Schottky-diode-transistor-logic (SDTL) gate with 1.6 ns delay time, 0.8 pJ power-delay product, and 2000-µm2gate area has been successfully developed.