Low-Resistivity Long-Length Horizontal Carbon Nanotube Bundles for Interconnect Applications—Part II: Characterization

Due to the enormous challenges of fabricating long horizontally aligned carbon nanotube (HACNT) bundle interconnects, there exists little research on characterization of long HACNT interconnects. In this paper, taking advantage of our unique HACNT fabrication process outlined in the companion paper, the electrical and self-heating characterization of long HACNT bundles are reported. Negative temperature coefficients of resistance for both per unit length resistance and metal-CNT contact resistance are confirmed from measurements. This first report on the electrical and thermal characterization fills the wide gap between CNT interconnect modeling efforts and corresponding experimental efforts by providing many important extracted parameters that are critical in various modeling and analyses.