Best Student Paper Award at EPEPS2023

Emile Vanderstraeten was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 32nd Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packages and Systems (EPEPS2023) for his paper "Analysis of Electrostatically Induced Interconnect Structures in Single-Layer Graphene via a Conservative First-Principles Modeling Technique".

About EPEPS2023

EPEPS is the premier international conference on advanced and emerging issues in electrical modeling, analysis and design of electronic interconnections, packages and systems. It also focuses on new methodologies and design techniques for evaluating and ensuring signal, power and thermal integrity in high-speed designs. EPEPS is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, and IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society.

In 2023 EPEPS was held on October 15-18, 2023 in Milpitas, California, US.

About the paper topic

Electrostatically induced interconnect structures in graphene are an alluring alternative for nanoribbons to be used in future integrated circuits (ICs) because of the avoidance of edge scattering. In this contribution, these structures are analyzed using a novel first-principles modeling approach, based on higher-order conservative partitioned Runge-Kutta time stepping for the (2+1)D Dirac equation. The validity and applicability of the modeling tool are demonstrated by applying it to a bent interconnect and to a coupler.