VIACARBON

Carbon Nanotubes for Interconnects and Switches

Coordinatore	THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE    more  Organization address address: Trumpington St 6 city: Cambridge postcode: CB2 1PZ contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: John Cognome: Robertson Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 748331 Fax: 44 1223 748348
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	3˙485˙869 €
EC contributo	2˙530˙000 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2007-1
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-01-01   -   2011-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE  Organization address address: Trumpington St 6 city: Cambridge postcode: CB2 1PZ contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: John Cognome: Robertson Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 748331 Fax: 44 1223 748348	UK (Cambridge)	coordinator	0.00
2	COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES  Organization address address: BATIMENT LE PONANT D, 25 RUE LEBLANC city: PARIS CEDEX 15 postcode: 75015 contact info Titolo: Ms Nome: Catherine Cognome: Devant Email: send email Telefono: 33438785440 Fax: 33438785440	FR (PARIS CEDEX 15)	participant	0.00
3	ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE  Organization address address: BATIMENT CE - 3316 - STATION 1 city: LAUSANNE postcode: 1015 contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Adrian Cognome: Ionescu Email: send email Telefono: +41 21 693 3978 Fax: +41 21 693 3640	CH (LAUSANNE)	participant	0.00
4	INTEL PERFORMANCE LEARNING SOLUTIONS LIMITED  Organization address address: COLLINSTOWN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE city: LEIXLIP, CO KILDARE contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Bernard Cognome: Capraro Email: send email Telefono: +353 1 6064228 Fax: +353 1 6064210	IE (LEIXLIP, CO KILDARE)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

VIACARBON aims to develop carbon nanotubes for vertical and horizontal interconnects for CMOS nodes of 22 nm and beyond, and for NEMS RF switches. Carbon nanotubes are universally proposed as interconnects because of their huge current carrying capacity of 1E9 A/cm2. However, interconnects also need a low resistance, at least as low as copper. As CNTs are 1-dimensional conductors, they have a minimum quantum resistance of 6 kohms, which can only be reduced by laying many CNTs in parallel. The project aims to grow single wall nanotube mats with density of over 1E13 cm-2, by optimisation of the growth catalyst, and convert this into an industrially compatible technology for both vertical and horizontal interconnects.

A second aspect is to fabricate arrays of NEMs as RF switches to support new device functions in the interconnect layer: for reconfigurable interconnects, banks of programmable passives and power current switch.