Title :
Semi-empirical SPICE models for carbon nanotube FET logic
Author :
Dwyer, Chris ; Cheung, Moky ; Sorin, Daniel J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA
Abstract :
To evaluate the potential of carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs) to replace silicon CMOS technology, we develop a SPICE model of CNFET nanoelectronics. Our model is parameterizable, and it enables composition of models of various aspects of nanoelectronic behavior. Comparing CNFET nanoelectronics against current CMOS technology and future projections for CMOS, we demonstrate that CNFET nanoelectronics can achieve significantly greater performance at a fraction of the switching energy.
Keywords :
SPICE; carbon nanotubes; field effect logic circuits; integrated circuit modelling; nanoelectronics; nanotube devices; C; carbon nanotube FET logic; carbon nanotube field effect transistors; nanoelectronics; semiempirical SPICE models; switching energy; CMOS logic circuits; CMOS technology; CNTFETs; Carbon nanotubes; Circuit simulation; Logic circuits; Nanoelectronics; Predictive models; SPICE; Semiconductor device modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Nanotechnology, 2004. 4th IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8536-5
DOI :
10.1109/NANO.2004.1392359