Assessing the implications of process variations on future carbon nanotube bundle interconnect solutions

Proceedings - Eighth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-126

  Nieuwoudt, Arthur ^a   Massoud, Yehia ^a  

^a Rice University

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INTERCONNECT SOLUTIONS; PROCESS VARIATIONS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 34548138865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2007.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (38)

1. ITRS, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, 2005.
2. F. Kreupl, A. P. Graham, M. Liebau, G. S. Duesberg, R. Seidel, and E. Unger, "Carbon Nanotubes for Interconnect Applications," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, December 2004, pp. 683-686.
3. J. W. G. Wildoeer, L. C. Venema, A. C. Rinzler, R. E. Smalley, and C. Dekker, "Electronic Structure of Atomically Resolved Carbon Nanotubes" Nature, vol. 391, pp. 59-61, January 1998.
4. R. H. Baughman, A. A. Zakhidov, and W. A. de Heer, "Carbon Nanotubes-the Route Toward Applications," Science, vol. 297, pp. 787-792, August 2002.
5. Y. Massoud and A. Nieuwoudt, "Modeling and Design Challenges and Solutions for Carbon Nanotube-Based Interconnect in Future High Performance Integrated Circuits," ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 155-196, July 2006.
6. Z. Yao, C. L. Kane, and C. Dekker, "High-Field Electrical Transport in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes," Physical Review Letters, vol. 84, no. 13, pp. 2941-2944, March 2000.
7. A. Thess, R. Lee, P. Nikolaev, H. Dai, P. Petit, J. Robert, C. Xu, Y. H. Lee, S. G. Kim, A. G. Rinzler, D. T. Colbert, G. E. Scuseria, D. Tomanek, J. E. Fischer, and R. E. Smalley, "Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes," Science, vol. 273, pp. 483-487, July 1996.
8. S. Nassif, "Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Variations," in Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, May 2001, pp. 223-228.
9. M. Liebau, A. P. Graham, G. S. Duesberg, E. Unger, R. Seidel, and F. Kreupl, "Nanoelectronics Based on Carbon Nanotubes: Technological Challenges and Recent Developments," Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon Nanostructures, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 255-258, 2005.
10. P. Avouris, J. Appenzeller, R. Martel, and S. J. Wind, "Carbon Nanotube Electronics," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 91, no. 11, pp. 1772-1784, November 2003.
11. L. Henrard, A. Loiseau, C. Joumet, and P. Bernier, "Study of the Symmetry of Single-Wall Nanotubes by Electron Diffraction," European Physical Journal B, vol. 13, pp. 661-669, 2000.
12. L. Henrard, A. Loiseau, C. Joumet, and P. Bernier, "What is the Chirality of Singlewall Nanotubes Produced by Arc-Discharge? An Electron Diffraction Study," Synthetic Metals, vol. 85, pp. 2533-2536, 1999.
13. A. Nieuwoudt, M. Mondal, and Y. Massoud, "Predicting the Performance and Reliability of Carbon Nanotube Bundles for On-Chip Interconnect," in Proceedings of the IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, January 2007.
14. A. Nieuwoudt and Y. Massoud, "Evaluating the Impact of Resistance in Carbon Nanotube Bundles for VLSI Interconnect using Diameter-Dependent Modeling Techniques," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 2460-2466, October 2006.
15. A. Nieuwoudt and Y Massoud, "Understanding the Impact of Inductance in Carbon Nanotube Bundles for VLSI Interconnect using Scalable Modeling Techniques," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 758-765, November 2006.
16. J. P. Burke, "An RF Circuit Model for Carbon Nanotubes," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 55-58, March 2003.
17. S. Salahuddin, M. Lundstrom, and S. Datta, "Transport Effects on Signal Propagation in Quantum Wires," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1734-1742, August 2005.
18. A. Raychowdhury and K. Roy, "A Circuit Model for Carbon Nanotube Interconnects: Comparative Study with Cu Interconnects for Scaled Technologies," in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, November 2004, pp. 237-240.
19. A. Naeemi, R. Sarvari, and J. D. Meindl, "Performance Comparison Between Carbon Nanotube and Copper Interconnects for Gigascale Integration (GSI)," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 84-86, February 2005.
20. N. Srivastava and K. Banerjee, "Performance Analysis of Carbon Nanotube Interconnects for VLSI Applications," in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, November 2005, pp. 383-390.
21. A. Naeemi and J. D. Meindl, "Compact Physical Models for Multiwall Carbon-Nanotube Interconnects," IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 338-340, May 2006.
22. W Kim, A. Javey, R. Tu, J. Cao, Q. Wang, and H. Dai, "Electrical Contacts to Carbon Nanotubes Down to lnm in Diameter," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 87, p. 173101, 2005.
23. A. Maiti, A. Svizhenko, and M. P. Anantram, "Electronic Transport through Carbon Nanotubes: Effects of Structural Deformation and Tube Chirality," Physical Review Letters, 2002.
24. M. Mondai, X. Wu, A. Aziz, and Y Massoud, "Reliability Analysis for On-Chip Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Nano-Networks, September 2006.
25. N. Peng, Q. Zhang, J. Li, and N. Liu, "Influences of AC Electric Field on the Spatial Distribution of Carbon Nanotubes Formed Between Electrodes," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 100, p. 024309, 2006.
26. M. Zheng, A. Jagota, M. S. Strano, A. P. Santos, P. Barone, S. G. Chou, B. A. Diner, M. S. Dresselhaus, R. S. Mclean, G. B. Onoa, G. G. Samsonidze, E. D. Semke, M. Usrey, and D. J. Walls, "Structure-Based Carbon Nanotube Sorting by Sequence-Dependent DNA Assembly," Science, vol. 302, pp. 1545-1548, November 2003.
27. S. R. Lustig, A. Jagota, C. Khripin, and M. Zheng, "Theory of Structure-Based Carbon Nanotube Separations by Ion-Exchange Chromatography of DNA/CNT Hybrids," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 7, pp. 2559-2566, 2005.
28. S. Han, T. Yu, J. Park, B. Koo, J. Joo, T. Hyeon, S. Hong, and J. Im, "Diameter-Controlled Synthesis of Discrete and Uniform-Sized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Monodisperse Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Embedded in Zirconia Nanoparticle Arrays as Catalysts," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 24, pp. 8091-8095, 2004.
29. X. Liu, T. Pichler, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, H. Kataura, and Y Achiba, "Detailed Analysis of the Mean Diameter and Diameter Distribution of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes from their Optical Response," Physical Review B, vol. 66, no. 4, p. 045411, 2002.
30. L. An, J. M. Owens, L. E. McNeil, and J. Liu, "Synthesis of Nearly Uniform Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Identical Metal-Containing Molecular Nanoclusters as Catalysts," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 124, no. 46, pp. 13 688-13 689, 2002.
31. K. Agarwal, D. Sylvester, D. Blaauw, F. Liu, S. Nassif, and S. Vrudhula, "Variational Delay Metrics for Interconnect Timing Analysis," in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, June 2004, pp. 381-384.
32. Z. Yu and P. J. Burke, "Microwave Transport in Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Nano Letters, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 1403-1406, July 2005.
33. R. Tarkiainen, M. Ahlskog, J. Penttila, L. Roschier, P. Hakonen, M. Paalanen, and E. Sonin, "Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube: Luttinger versus Fermi Liquid," Physical Review B, vol. 64, no. 19, p. 195412, 2001.
34. M. P. Anantram and F. Lonard, "Physics of Carbon Nanotube Electronic Devices," Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 69, pp. 507-561, 2006.
35. Y Massoud and Y Ismail, "Grasping the Impact of On-Chip Inductance," IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 14-21, June 2001.
36. J. E. Fischer, H. Dai, A. Thess, R. Lee, N. M. Hanjani, D. L. Dehaas, and R. E. Smalley, "Metallic Resistivity in Crystalline Ropes of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes," Physical Review B, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. R4921-R4924, 1997.
37. H. Stahl, J. Appenzeller, R. Martel, P. Avouris, and B. Lengeier, "Intertube Coupling in Ropes of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes," Physical Review Letters, vol. 85, December 2000.
38. Z. Chen, G. Cao, Z. Lin, I. Koehler, and P. K. Bachmann, "A Self-Assembled Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes for Interconnects," Nanotechnology, vol. 17, p. 10621066, 2006.