A model of multi-walled carbon nanotube interconnects

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 987-990

  Xu, Yao ^a   Srivastava, Ashok ^a   Sharma, Ashwani K ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CNT interconnect; CNT transmission line; MWCNT modeling; RF microwave modeling

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT MODELS; CU INTERCONNECT; CU-INTERCONNECTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HIGH FREQUENCY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL FLUID MODEL; REFLECTION LOSS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TRANSMISSION LINE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC LINES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 77950654096     PISSN: 15483746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2009.5235934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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