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This paper reviews the development of germanium technology for applications in high performance CMOS ICs, rf and MMICs. The paper covers the development of MOSFET technology with respect to source/drain doping and gate dielectrics. Germanium has higher junction leakage currents than silicon on account of its lower energy bandgap. It is a scarce material, expensive and the wafer size is limited. To minimize these disadvantages germanium will be employed as a thin layer on an insulator substrate. Various methods of producing germanium-on-insulator (GeOI) substrates are outlined. These include the Smart-cut process, the condensation process starting with SOI wafers and the epitaxial growth of germanium on lattice matched crystalline oxides grown on silicon substrates. Partial GeOI layer techniques reviewed are dislocation necking of solid phase epitaxial layers grown in narrow high aspect ratio trenches and liquid phase epitaxy from rapid melt germanium confined in micro-crucibles. The fabrication of germanium on dielectric substrates such as quartz, sapphire and alumina are also discussed.

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Gamble, H. et al. (2011). Germanium Processing. In: Nazarov, A., Colinge, JP., Balestra, F., Raskin, JP., Gamiz, F., Lysenko, V. (eds) Semiconductor-On-Insulator Materials for Nanoelectronics Applications. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15868-1_1

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