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Ultralow electron-surface scattering in nanoscale metals leveraging Fermi-surface anisotropy

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PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 8, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.085002

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  1. SRC [2966]

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Increasing resistivity of metal wires with reducing nanoscale dimensions is a major performance bottleneck of semiconductor computing technologies. Metals with anisotropic Fermi velocity distributions can effectively suppress electron scattering by surfaces and outperform isotropic conductors. Certain intermetallics and borides with anisotropic Fermi velocities show the most promising performance for narrow wires.
Increasing resistivity of metal wires with reducing nanoscale dimensions is a major performance bottleneck of semiconductor computing technologies. We show that metals with suitably anisotropic Fermi velocity distributions can strongly suppress electron scattering by surfaces and outperform isotropic conductors such as copper in nanoscale wires. We derive a corresponding descriptor for the resistivity scaling of anisotropic conductors, screen thousands of metals using first-principles calculations of this descriptor, and identify the most promising materials for nanoscale interconnects. Previously-proposed layered conductors such as MAX phases and delafossites show promise in thin films, but not in narrow wires due to increased scattering from side walls. We find that certain intermetallics (notably CoSn) and borides (such as YCo3B2) with one-dimensionally anisotropic Fermi velocities are most promising for narrow wires. Combined with first-principles electron-phonon scattering predictions, we show that the proposed materials exhibit 2-3x lower resistivity than copper at 5-nm wire dimensions.

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