TY - GEN
T1 - Carbon nanotube via interconnects with large current carrying capacity
AU - Nihei, Mizuhisa
AU - Kawabata, Akio
AU - Sato, Shintaro
AU - Nozue, Tatsuhiro
AU - Hyakushima, Takashi
AU - Norimatsu, Masaaki
AU - Murakami, Tomo
AU - Kondo, Daiyu
AU - Ohfuti, Mari
AU - Awano, Yuji
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - We fabricated a carbon nanotube (CNT) via interconnect and evaluated its electrical properties. We found that the CNT via resistance was independent of temperatures, which suggests that the carrier transport is ballistic. From the via height dependence of the resistance, the electron mean free path was estimated to be about 80 nm, which is similar to the via height predicted for hp32-nm technology node. This indicates that it will be possible to realize CNT vias with ballistic transport for hp32-nm technology node and below. It was also found that a CNT via was able to sustain a current density as high as 5.0×106 A/cm6 at 105 °C for 100 hours without any deterioration.
AB - We fabricated a carbon nanotube (CNT) via interconnect and evaluated its electrical properties. We found that the CNT via resistance was independent of temperatures, which suggests that the carrier transport is ballistic. From the via height dependence of the resistance, the electron mean free path was estimated to be about 80 nm, which is similar to the via height predicted for hp32-nm technology node. This indicates that it will be possible to realize CNT vias with ballistic transport for hp32-nm technology node and below. It was also found that a CNT via was able to sustain a current density as high as 5.0×106 A/cm6 at 105 °C for 100 hours without any deterioration.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSICT.2008.4734598
DO - 10.1109/ICSICT.2008.4734598
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60649120607
SN - 9781424421855
T3 - International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuits Technology Proceedings, ICSICT
SP - 541
EP - 543
BT - ICSICT 2008 - 2008 9th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology Proceedings
T2 - 2008 9th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, ICSICT 2008
Y2 - 20 October 2008 through 23 October 2008
ER -