Quantum transport and current distribution at radio frequency in multiwall carbon nanotubes

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 492-500

  Kashcheyevs, Vyacheslavs ^a   Tamburrano, Alessio ^b   Sarto, Maria Sabrina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT); conducting channel; current distribution; quantum transport; radio frequency (RF)

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CARBON SHELLS; CARBON-BASED NANOELECTRONICS; CONDUCTING BAND; CONDUCTING CHANNELS; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PERFORMANCE; KINETIC INDUCTANCES; LARGE DIAMETER; LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; NANOINTERCONNECTS; NANOTUBE CONFIGURATION; QUANTUM CAPACITANCE; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; SIMPLIFIED EXPRESSIONS; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; GRAPHENE; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RADIO WAVES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84860842545     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2178610     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. W. Hoenlein, F. Kreupel, G. S. Duesberg, A. P. Graham, M. Liebau, R. V. Seidel, and E. Unger, "Carbon nanotube applications in microelectronics, " IEEE Trans. Compon. Packag. Technol., vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 629-634, Dec. 2004.
2. P. J. Burke, "Luttinger liquid theory as a model of the gigahertz electrical properties of carbon nanotubes," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 129-144, Sep. 2002. (Pubitemid 43987426)
3. S. Salahuddin, M. Lundstrom, and S. Datta, "Transport effects on signal propagation in quantum wires," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1734-1742, Aug. 2005. (Pubitemid 41100635)
4. M. S. Sarto, A. Tamburrano, and M. D'Amore, "New electron-waveguide based modelling for carbon nanotube interconnects," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 214-225, Mar. 2009.
5. M. S. Sarto and A. Tamburrano, "Single-conductor transmission-line model of multiwall carbon nanotubes," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 82-92, Jan. 2010.
6. M. D'Amore, M. S. Sarto, and A. Tamburrano, "Fast transient analysis of next-generation interconnects based on carbon nanotubes," IEEE Trans. Electromagn. Compat., vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 496-503, May 2010.
7. D. Fathi and B. Forouzandeh, "A novel approach for stability analysis in carbon nanotube interconnects," IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 4755-4477, May 2009.
8. J. P. Cui and W.-Y. Yin, "Transfer function and compact distributed RLC models of carbon nanotube bundle interconnects and their applications," Prog. Electromagn. Res., vol. 104, pp. 69-83, 2010.
9. P. J.Burke, S. Li, and Z.Yu, "Quantitative theory of nanowire and nanotube antenna performance," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 314-334, Jul. 2006. (Pubitemid 44102120)
10. G. W. Hanson, "Current of an infinitely-long carbon nanotube antenna excited by a gap generator," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 76-81, Jan. 2006. (Pubitemid 46395347)
11. Y. Huang, W.-Y. Yin, and Q. H. Liu, "Performance prediction of carbon nanotube bundle dipole antennas," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 331-337, May 2008. (Pubitemid 351711254)
12. A. Svizhenko, M. P. Anantram, and T. R. Govindan, "Ballistic transport and electrostatics in metallic carbon nanotubes," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol., vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 557-562, Sep. 2005. (Pubitemid 41441350)
13. Z. Yao, C. L. Kane, and C. Dekker, "High-field electrical transport in single-wall carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 84, pp. 2941-2944, 2000. (Pubitemid 40598935)
14. P. G. Collins, M. Hersam, M. Arnold, R. Martel, and P. Avouris, "Current saturation and electrical breakdown in multiwalled carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 86, pp. 3128-3131, 2001. (Pubitemid 32317878)
15. J. Park, S. Rosenblatt, Y. Yaish, V. Sazonova, H. Ustunel, S. Braig, T. A. Arias, P. W. Brouwer, and P. L. McEuen, "Electron-phonon scattering in metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes," Nano Lett., vol. 4, pp. 517-520, 2004. (Pubitemid 38402644)
16. A. Naeemi and J. D. Meindl, "Compact physical models for multiwall carbon-nanotube interconnects," IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 338-340, May 2006.
17. A. Naeemi and J. D. Meindl, "Performance modelling for single-and multiwall carbon nanotubes as signal and power interconnects in gigascale systems," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 2574-2582, Oct. 2008.
18. A. Naeemi and J. D. Meindl, "Carbon nanotube interconnects," Annu. Rev. Mater. Res., vol. 39, pp. 255-275, 2009.
19. A. Naeemi and J. D. Meindl, "Physical modeling of temperature coefficient of resistance for single-and multi-wall carbon nanotube interconnects," IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 135-138, Feb. 2007. (Pubitemid 46336444)
20. A. Naeemi, R. Sarvari, and J. D. Meindl, "Performance comparison between carbon nanotube and copper interconnects for gigascale integration (GSI)," IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 84-86, Feb. 2005. (Pubitemid 40205844)
21. Y. Massoud and A. Nieuwoudt, "Accurate resistance modelling for carbon nanotube bundle in VLSI interconnect," in Proc. 6th IEEE Conf. Nanotechnol., Cincinnati, OH, 2006, pp. 288-291. (Pubitemid 351576405)
22. J. C. Charlier, X. Blaśe, and S. Roche, "Electronic and transport properties of nanotubes," Rev. Modern Phys., vol. 790, pp. 677-732, 2007. (Pubitemid 47139984)
23. E. Pop, D. Mann, J. Reifenberg, K. Goodson, and H. Dai, "Electro-thermal transport in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes for interconnect applications," in Proc. Int. Electron Devices Meet. Tech. Dig., 2005, pp. 253-256. (Pubitemid 46370838)
24. M. S. Purewal, B. H. Hong, A. Ravi, B. Chandra, J. Hone, and P. Kim, "Scaling of resistance and electron mean free path of single-walled carbon nanotube," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 98, pp. 186808-1-186808-4, 2007.
25. C. Rutherglen and P. Burke, "Nanoelectromagnetics: Circuit and electromagnetic properties of carbon nanotubes," Small, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 884-906, 2009.
26. J. Lu and S. Wang, "Tight binding investigation of the metallic proximity effect of semiconductor-metal double-wall carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 76, pp. 233103-1-233103-4, 2007.
27. V. Zólyomi, J. Koltai, Á. Rusznyák, J. Kürti, Á. Gali, F. Simon, H. Kuzmany, Á. Szabados, and P. R. Surján, "Intershell interaction in double walled carbon nanotubes: Charge transfer and orbital mixing," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 77, pp. 245403-1-245403-8, 2008.
28. Y. Tison, C. E. Giusca, V. Stolojan, Y. Hayashi, and S. R. P. Silva, "The inner shell influence on the electronic structure of double-walled carbon nanotubes," Adv. Mater., vol. 20, pp. 189-194, 2008. (Pubitemid 351145502)
29. P. Lambin, V. Meunier, and A. Rubio, "Electronic structure of polychiral carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 5129-5135, 2000.
30. T. Vukovic, M. Damnjanovic, and I. Milosevic, "Interaction between layers of multi-wall carbon nanotubes," Physica E, vol. 16, pp. 259-268, 2003.
31. H. Li, W. Y. Yin, K. Banerjee, and J. F. Mao, "Circuit modeling and performance analysis of multi-walled carbon nanotube interconnects," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1328-1337, Jun. 2008. (Pubitemid 351803231)
32. P. G. Collins and P. Avouris, "Multishell conduction inmultiwalled carbon nanotubes," Appl. Phys. A, Mater. Sci. Process., vol. 74, no. 3, pp. 329-332, Mar. 2002. (Pubitemid 34268679)
33. Y. G. Yoon, P. Delaney, and S. G. Louie, "Quantum conductance of multiwall carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. B, Condens. Matter, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 073407-1-073407-4, Aug. 2002.
34. B. Bourlon, C. Miko, L. Forro, D. C. Glattli, and A. Bachtold, "Determination of the intershell conductance in multiwalled carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 93, no. 17, pp. 176806-1-176806-4, Oct. 2004.
35. A. Stetter, J. Vancea, and C. H. Back, "Conductivity of multiwall carbon nanotubes: Role of multiple shells and defects," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 82, pp. 115451-1-115451-5, 2010.