Emerging Carbon Nanotube Electronic Circuits, Modeling, and Performance

الملخص EN

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.