Surface Leakage Current in Silicon Fused Junction Diodes

Surface Effects on Silicon: Introduction

“…The effectof n-type channels on the reverse current in germanium p-n junction diodes has been studied by McWhorter and Kingston," Surface leakage currents have also been observed in silicon junction diodes by Cutler and Bath. 5 Garrett and Brattain have shown that the surface can even control the break- down voltage in n-p-n transistors," Recently, Sah 7 has shown that the current gain oftransistors can be controlled by means of the surface. In the case of the insulated gate field-effect transistor.…”