Emerging Carbon Nanotube Electronic Circuits, Modeling, and Performance. (17th February 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xu, Yao; Srivastava, Ashok; Sharma, Ashwani K.
• Other Names: Peterson Gregory D. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: VLSI design. Volume 2010(2010)
• Publication Date: 2010-02-17
• Subjects: Integrated circuits -- Very large scale integration -- Periodicals; 621.395
• DOI: 10.1155/2010/864165
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1065-514X

Abstract

Abstract : Current transport and dynamic models of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors are presented. A model of single-walled carbon nanotube as interconnect is also presented and extended in modeling of single-walled carbon nanotube bundles. These models are applied in studying the performances of circuits such as the complementary carbon nanotube inverter pair and carbon nanotube as interconnect. Cadence/Spectre simulations show that carbon nanotube field-effect transistor circuits can operate at upper GHz frequencies. Carbon nanotube interconnects give smaller delay than copper interconnects used in nanometer CMOS VLSI circuits.