Performance analysis of temperature dependent GNR interconnect

Abstract

In this work, the temperature dependent equivalent model for graphene nanoribbon (GNR) based nanointerconnect is developed. Using this model, we have investigated the frequency response of GNR as a function of temperature for 16nm technology node. The effective mean free path (MFP) is calculated for different temperature and then the resistance of GNR interconnect is calculated. It is observed that for different interconnect length and for three different temperature (233K, 300K and 378K), the performance of GNR interconnect is almost consistent for a wide range of frequencies. Our analysis shows that GNR can operate up to 1000 THz frequency.