Shu Jen Han, Jianshi Tang, et al.
Nature Nanotechnology
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely studied as a channel material of scaled transistors for high-speed and low-power logic applications. In order to have sufficient drive current, it is widely assumed that CNT-based logic devices will have multiple CNTs in each channel. Understanding the effects of the number of CNTs on device performance can aid in the design of CNT field-effect transistors (CNTFETs). We have fabricated multi-CNT-channel CNTFETs with an 80-nm channel length using precise self-assembly methods. We describe compact statistical models and Monte Carlo simulations to analyze failure probability and the variability of the on-state current and threshold voltage. The results show that multichannel CNTFETs are more resilient to process variation and random environmental fluctuations than single-CNT devices.
Shu Jen Han, Jianshi Tang, et al.
Nature Nanotechnology
Julie A. Bardecker, Ali Afzali, et al.
Chemistry of Materials
Sang-Hoon Bae, Xiaodong Zhou, et al.
PNAS
Yu-Ming Lin, Damon B. Farmer, et al.
DRC 2008