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Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi

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CNT Interconnects<br />

• Carbon nanotubes – CNTs – are sheets of<br />

graphite rolled into cylinders of diameters<br />

varying from 0.6 to about 3 nm<br />

• Demonstrate either metallic or semiconducting properties<br />

• depending on direction in which they are rolled<br />

• CNTs are promising candidates as on-chip interconnects<br />

• high mechanical and thermal stability<br />

• high thermal conductivity<br />

• large current carrying capacity<br />

• highly resistant to electromigration and other sources of breakdown<br />

• much better conductivity properties than Cu<br />

• due to longer electron mean free path (MFP) lengths in the micrometer<br />

range, compared to nanometer range MFP lengths for Cu

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