A bipolar type semiconductor device capable of attaining high current gain
and high cut-off frequency and performing a satisfactory transistor
operation also in a high current region while maintaining a high
breakdown voltage performance, as well as a method of manufacturing the
semiconductor device, are provided. In a collector comprising a first
semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer narrower in band gap
than the first semiconductor layer, an impurity is doped so as to have a
peak of impurity concentration within the second collector layer and so
that the value of the peak is higher than the impurity concentration at
any position within the first collector layer. It is preferable to adjust
the concentration of the doped impurity in such a manner that a
collector-base depletion layer extends up to the first collector layer.