Numerical Modeling of Graphene Nano-Ribbon by DGTD Taking into Account the Spatial Dispersion Effects
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Conference PaperAuthors
Li, PingJiang, L. J.
Bagci, Hakan

KAUST Department
Computational Electromagnetics LaboratoryComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering Program
Date
2019-02-28Online Publication Date
2019-02-28Print Publication Date
2018-08Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/631670
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It is well known that graphene demonstrates spatial dispersion properties [1]-[3], i.e., its conductivity is nonlocal and a function of spectral wave number (momentum operator) q. In this work, to fully account for effects of spatial dispersion on transmission of high speed signals along graphene nano-ribbon (GNR) interconnects, a discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) algorithm is proposed. The atomically-thick GNR is modeled using a nonlocal transparent surface impedance boundary condition (SIBC) [4] incorporated into the DGTD scheme. Since the conductivity is a complicated function of q (and one cannot find an analytical Fourier transform pair between q and spatial differential operators), an exact time domain SIBC model cannot be derived. To overcome this problem, the conductivity is approximated by its Taylor series in spectral domain under low-q assumption. This approach permits expressing the time domain SIBC in the form of a second-order partial differential equation (PDE) in current density and electric field intensity. To permit easy incorporation of this PDE with the DGTD algorithm, three auxiliary variables, which degenerate the second-order (temporal and spatial) differential operators to first-order ones, are introduced. Regarding to the temporal dispersion effects, the auxiliary differential equation (ADE) method [4] is utilized to eliminates the expensive temporal convolutions. To demonstrate the applicability of the proposed scheme, numerical results, which involve characterization of spatial dispersion effects on the transfer impedance matrix of GNR interconnects, will be presented.Citation
Li P, Jiang LJ, Bagci H (2018) Numerical Modeling of Graphene Nano-Ribbon by DGTD Taking into Account the Spatial Dispersion Effects. 2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama). Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597805.Sponsors
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 61701423, and in part by NSFC 61674105, NSFC 61622106, NSFC 61701424, and in part by UGC of Hong Kong (AoE/P-04/08).Conference/Event name
2018 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS-Toyama 2018Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8597805ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.23919/PIERS.2018.8597805