High-speed interconnects: history, evolution, and the road ahead

VR Kumbhare, R Kumar, MK Majumder… - IEEE Microwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An integrated circuit (IC), or chip, is a set of electronic circuits and components placed on a
tiny planar silicon (Si) semiconductor substrate. These electronics circuits and components …

Effect of surface roughness on the electrical performances of CPW transmission lines used in future ultra-high frequency applications

Z Chen, W Tian - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of integrated circuits and packaging technology has led to smaller and
smaller transmission line sizes and higher and higher operating frequencies up to nearly …

Dielectric surface roughness scattering induced crosstalk performance of coupled MCB interconnects

M Sharma, MK Rai, R Khanna - Microelectronics Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
A CMOS inverter driven equivalent single conductor model of capacitively coupled mixed
CNT bundle (MCB) interconnects are taken to analyze the crosstalk induced time domain …

Analytical modeling and performance benchmarking of on-chip interconnects with rough surfaces

S Kumar, R Sharma - IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In planar on-chip copper interconnects, conductor losses due to surface roughness
demands explicit consideration for accurate modeling of their performance metrics. This is …

Analysis of multilayer graphene nanoribbon interconnects constrained by structural edge roughness and corrugated surface dielectric

A Upadhyay, MK Rai, R Khanna - physica status solidi (a), 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The transient response, 3 dB bandwidth, and relative stability of undoped‐and doped‐
multilayer graphene nanoribbon (MLGNR) interconnects are investigated based on the …

Delay characterization of multilayer graphene nanoribbon interconnects in presence of scattering and thermal effects

A Upadhyay, MK Rai, R Khanna - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Scattering source‐based mean free path (MFP) and circuit modeling are proposed for three
different configurations of undoped multilayer graphene nanoribbon (U‐MLGNR)(viz …

CROSSTALK ANALYSIS OF MULTILAYER GRAPHENE NANORIBBON INTERCONNECTS IN GHz REGIME: UNRAVELING SCATTERING INDUCED EFFECTS

A UPADHYAY, MK RAI, R KHANNA - Nano Communication Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the impact of high-frequency phenomena on the operational
characteristics of intercalation-doped horizontal top-contact multilayer graphene nanoribbon …

Electro-thermal modeling and reliability analysis of Cu–carbon hybrid interconnects for beyond-CMOS computing

B Kumari, R Sharma, M Sahoo - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A Cu–carbon hybrid interconnect was recently proposed as an alternate interconnect
structure for future VLSI applications because of its superior electrical performance over its …

Role of grain size on the effective resistivity of cu-graphene hybrid interconnects

R Kumar, S Pathania, S Guglani… - 2020 IEEE 70th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At sub-22nm technology nodes, size effects play a prominent role in the performance
degradation of Cu interconnects. Several scattering mechanisms contribute to size effects …

Analyzing crosstalk-induced effects in rough on-chip copper interconnects

S Pathania, S Kumar, R Sharma - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aggressive scaling of on-chip interconnects results in significantly higher coupling
capacitance, which results in crosstalk effects as we enter the end-of-the-roadmap era …