Carbon nanotubes in interconnect applications

Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes have attracted the fancy of many scientists worldwide. The small dimensions, strength and the remarkable physical properties of these structures make them a very unique material with a whole range of promising applications. In this review we describe some of the important materials science applications of carbon nanotubes. Specifically we discuss the electronic and electrochemi...

Carbon Nanotube Array Vias for Interconnect Applications

The material and electrical properties of the CNT single vias and array vias grown by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition were investigated. The diameters of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) grown on the bottom electrode of Ta decrease with increasing pretreatment power and substrate temperature while the effects of the growth power and methane flow ratio are insignificant The...

Carbon Nanotube Composites for Electronic Interconnect Applications

Carbon Nanotubes – A Solution for Tera Hertz’s IC Interconnect

Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and bundled CNTs have emerged as promising candidates for future IC interconnect material due to their excellent inherent electrical and thermal properties. They will be an attractive solution for the resistivity and electromigration problems faced by traditional interconnects as technology scales into nanoscale regime. This paper makes an effort to evalu...

Biological Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

Adoptive T cell transfer, involving the ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes, is a viable therapeutic approach for both infectious diseases and cancer, with demonstrated efficacy in treating melanoma, Epstein-Barr virus, and HIV-related infections. However, T cell transfer by clonal expansion is not clinically feasible as it does not consistently generate therapeutic quantities of T cells. Effort...