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Hot carrier (HC) reliability tests on 0.5 /spl mu/m BiCMOS NPN transistors indicate that process and structural factors both impact HC reliability. Important process factors include the dopant profiles in the emitter, active base, link base and extrinsic base regions. A key structural factor is the slot depth which impacts the magnitude and orientation of the E-field near the emitter-base (E-B) junction...