Title
Modeling and Evaluating Carbon Nanotube Bundles for Future VLSI Interconnect Applications
Abstract
Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) bundles have the potential to provide an attractive solution for the resistivity and electromigration problems faced by copper interconnect as process technology scales. In this paper, we develop a scalable equivalent circuit model that captures the statistical distribution of metallic nanotubes, which can impact interconnect reliability, while accurately incorporating recent experimental and theoretical results. Leveraging the circuit model, we examine the performance and reliability of nanotube bundles for both individual signal lines and system-level designs. The results indicate that SWCNT interconnect bundles can provide significant improvement in delay over traditional copper interconnect depending on bundle geometry and process technology
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/NANONET.2006.346239
Lausanne
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
VLSI,carbon nanotubes,copper,equivalent circuits,integrated circuit interconnections,integrated circuit modelling,integrated circuit reliability,statistical distributions,Cu,SWCNT bundles,VLSI interconnect,copper interconnect,interconnect reliability,metallic nanotubes,scalable equivalent circuit model,single-walled carbon nanotube bundles,statistical distribution
Conference
1-4244-0391-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yehia Massoud1772113.05
Arthur Nieuwoudt220720.59