Carbon nanotube circuits in the presence of carbon nanotube density variations

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-76

  Zhang, Jie ^a   Patil, Nishant ^a   Hazeghi, Arash ^a   Mitra, Subhasish ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; CNT; CNT correlation; CNT density variation

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DELAY CIRCUITS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CARBON NANOTUBE DENSITIES; CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (CNFET); CNT DENSITY VARIATIONS; DELAY VARIATION; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DESIGN METRICS; NOISE MARGINS; PARAMETERIZED MODEL;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 70350727154     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1629911.1629933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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