Agenda
Thursday April 18, 2013
Functional Inks (09:25 - 11:15)
09:25 - 09:50 "Large-area Graphene: Commercial Readiness and Integration into Electronic Applications"• This talk would focus on the development of CNT-Copper (CNT-Cu) composite exhibiting 100-times higher current-carrying-capacity (108 A/cm2) than any metal (~106 A/cm2).
• The material exhibits unparalleled stability at 108 A/cm2.This has been achieved without compromising on its electrical conductivity (81% of pure Cu).
• Thus, this material presents an important technological advantage over conventional metals in back-end-of-line circuits, interconnects and vias of microelectronic devices.
• Ability to batch-fabricate the composite into micro-scale 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional structures resembling BEOL circuits and interconnects will be shown. The underlying mechanism enabling the high current-carrying-capacity will be briefly discussed.
I will present first-principles calculations of the electron transport across a nickel-graphene interface using the Atomistix Tool Kit (ATK) from QuantumWise. The ATK is a platform for atomic-scale modeling that provides an user-friendly interface to a wide variety of state-of-the-art simulation codes, including DFT, tight-binding and classical potential methods developed by QuantumWise, as well as external software packages.
10:40 Break
