Performance comparisons between carbon nanotubes, optical, and Cu for future high-performance on-chip interconnect applications

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3206-3215

  Koo, Kyung Hoae ^a   Cho, Hoyeol ^b   Kapur, Pawan ^a   Saraswat, Krishna C ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth allocation; Bandwidth density; Carbon nanotube (CNT); Carbon nanotubes; Cu; Global interconnects; Latency; Local interconnects; Nanotubes; Optics; Power

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; GEOMETRY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

GLOBAL INTERCONNECTS; LOCAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WIRES;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 36849005415     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.909045     Document Type: Article

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