Heat generation and transport in nanometer-scale transistors

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1587-1601

  Pop, Eric ^a,b   Sinha, Sanjiv ^a,b   Goodson, Kenneth E ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistic; Carbon nanotubes; Germanium on insulator (GOI); Heat generation; Monte Carlo; MOSFET; Nonequilibrium; Phonon; Power density; Scaling; Silicon on insulator (SOI); Temperature

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT GENERATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; THERMOANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DRAIN SERIES; GERMANIUM-ON-INSULATOR (GOI); NONEQUILIBRIUM; POWER DENSITY;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33845692228     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.879794     Document Type: Article

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