Application of carbon nanotubes (CNTS) in copper/low k interconnects design

With continuing device scaling from a 90nm to a 65nm node, wiring interconnect becomes increasingly crucial due to the effects on electrical resistance and wiring capacitance. The electrical resistance and parasitic capacitance associated with these metal interconnections has become a major factor...

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Main Author: Loo, Shane Zhi Yuan
Other Authors: Sridhar Idapalapati
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/41444
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:With continuing device scaling from a 90nm to a 65nm node, wiring interconnect becomes increasingly crucial due to the effects on electrical resistance and wiring capacitance. The electrical resistance and parasitic capacitance associated with these metal interconnections has become a major factor that limits the circuit speed of such high performance IC's. This limitation is one of the motivating factor for microelectronics industry's move away from aluminium/silicon dioxide interconnects to Cu and low-k dielectrics material systems.