Carbon-based Materials as Key-enabler for More Than Moore

TL;DR

This paper explores diverse applications of carbon-based materials beyond traditional CMOS devices, highlighting their potential in interconnects, memory, diodes, and sensors for advanced electronic systems.

Contribution

It introduces and demonstrates novel applications of carbon materials in interconnects, memory, diodes, and sensors, expanding their role beyond conventional device use.

Findings

Carbon materials serve as highly conductive electrodes for capacitors.

They enable novel non-volatile memory devices.

They improve sensor performance and enable new device architectures.

Abstract

Carbon-based materials like nanotubes and graphene are heavily investigated as future CMOS-like devices and in interconnect applications. While much of the interest has been devoted to the device aspects in competition to conventional CMOS transistors, the paper here will focus on some less known applications of carbon. Proposed and demonstrated are interconnect applications like highly conductive electrodes for capacitors, gate material or through-silicon vias (TSV), novel non-volatile memories, carbon-silicon Schottky diodes or superior sensors.