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Majid Sanaeepur

Majid Sanaeepur

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8818-2897
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 35796193100
HIndex:
Faculty: Engineering
Address: Arak University
Phone: 086-32625628

Research

Title
Dielectric Surface Roughness Scattering Limited Performance of MLGNR Interconnects
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Bandwidth, dielectric material, interconnect, multi-layer graphene nanoribbon (MLGNR), surface roughness, time delay
Year
2018
Journal IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY
DOI
Researchers Majid Sanaeepur

Abstract

Based on an equivalent single conductor (ESC) model incorporating surface roughness scattering, the effect of the surface roughness of underlying dielectric material on the performance of multi-layer graphene nanoribbon (MLGNR) interconnects with side contacts is investigated. The performance of MLGNR interconnects with different doping concentrations on the most common dielectrics (SiO2, BN and SiC) is compared with that of Cu counterpart in terms of the time delay and the bandwidth. Results show that the surface roughness of dielectric material can severely degrade the performance of MLGNR interconnects, hence, it must be taken in to account in design considerations. While MLGNR interconnects with perfect edges on SiC substrate outperform Cu counterpart both in terms of time delay and bandwidth, for other substrate materials the performance of MLGNR interconnects with respect to Cu counterpart depends on doping concentration and interconnect length.