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Title
Electrical tomography using atomic force microscopy and its application towards carbon nanotube-based interconnects
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Abstract
The fabrication and integration of low-resistance carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for interconnects in future integrated circuits requires characterization techniques providing structural and electrical information at the nanometer scale. In this paper we present a slice-and-view approach based on electrical atomic force microscopy. Material removal achieved by successive scanning using doped ultra-sharp full-diamond probes, manufactured in-house, enables us to acquire two-dimensional (2D) resistance maps originating from different depths (equivalently different CNT lengths) on CNT-based interconnects. Stacking and interpolating these 2D resistance maps results in a three-dimensional (3D) representation (tomogram). This allows insight from a structural (e.g. size, density, distribution, straightness) and electrical point of view simultaneously. By extracting the resistance evolution over the length of an individual CNT we derive quantitative information about the resistivity and the contact resistance between the CNT and bottom electrode.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nanotechnology. - Bristol
Publication
Bristol : 2012
ISSN
0957-4484
DOI
10.1088/0957-4484/23/30/305707
Volume/pages
23 :30 (2012) , 8 p.
Article Reference
305707
ISI
000306333500029
Medium
E-only publicatie
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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