The Carbon nAnotube Technology for High-speed nExt-geneRation nano-InterconNEcts (CATHERINE) project will develop an innovative cost-effective and reliable technological solution for high-performance next-generation nano-interconnects beyond the limit of current technology. The new approach, which exploits the carbon nanotube (CNT) technology, will permit to realize interconnects with high-transmission speed, high current density, exceptional mechanical and thermal properties, optimum signal and power integrity.

An important final product of the CATHERINE project consists in an integrated database for nanointerconnect design.

The project objectives, progresses and results are collected and presented in this on-line database also to provide links to related projects and activities and to support cooperation with other European projects. The developed multiscale models will help the designers to incorporate carbon nanostructures into their circuit design (macromodels) and are expected to have many effects on the today’s existing state of the art design tools.

The database is mainly based on the following resources:

• Technical documentation of models, including theoretical background, limitations, advantages and disadvantages;
• Library of routines implementing the models (executable modules, sources codes, software tools);
• Technical documentation of routines describing the input data set and the output data set for validation.

The database will contain also other useful resources concerning the CNT and nano-interconect technologies as technical documentation, public deliverables, reports, references articles, conference proceedings, theses, dissemination material, posters, presentations, multimedia contents.

Currently, the available models include:

1. Simulation of CNT Interconnects;
2. Electric and magnetic fields generated by a CNT bundle;
3. SWCNT Interconnect Transmission Line Model;
4. Sensitivity analysis;
5. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of CNTs;
6. Thermo-mechanical optimization of CNTs;
7. Ab initio calculations on nanostructured materials;
8. Model for number of conducting channels in carbon nanotubes;
9. Calculation and modeliing of conductivity in CNT interconnects;
10. Model to calculate effective permittivity matrix.

The Integrated Database for Nano-Interconnect Design is developed and supported by the CATHERINE Consortium. The full access to the Integrated Database for Nano-Interconnect Design is restricted to the registered users. The user accounts are provided by the CATHERINE Consortium upon request.