Simulation of carbon nanotube FETs including hot-phonon and self-heating effects

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2352-2361

  Hasan, Sayed ^a   Alam, Muhammad Ashraful ^a   Lundstrom, Mark S ^a  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE); Carbon nanotube; Electron phonon interaction; Hot phonon effects; Joule heating effects; Phonon scattering; Transistor

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; JOULE HEATING; PHONON SCATTERING;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; HOT-PHONON EFFECTS; SELF-HEATING;

MOSFET DEVICES;

EID: 38849108905     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.903291     Document Type: Article

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