Ultralow-power single-wall carbon nanotube interconnects for subthreshold circuits

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-101

  Jamal, Omer ^a   Naeemi, Azad ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy delay product; interconnects; subthreshold operation; weak inversion

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DELAY PRODUCT; ENERGY-PER-BIT; INTERCONNECTS; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; SUBTHRESHOLD CIRCUITS; SUBTHRESHOLD OPERATION; ULTRA-LOW POWER; WAFER-LEVEL FABRICATION; WEAK INVERSIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DELAY CIRCUITS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79551615374     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2010.2095428     Document Type: Article

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