Published December 2, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

End of Moore's law: thermal (noise) death of integration in micro and nano electronics

Description

The exponential growth of memory size and clock frequency in computers has a great impact on everyday life. The growth is empirically described by Moore's law of miniaturization. Physical limitations of this growth would have a serious impact on technology and economy. A thermodynamical effect, the increasing thermal noise voltage (Johnson-Nyquist noise) on decreasing characteristic capacitances, together with the constrain of using lower supply voltages to keep power dissipation manageable on the contrary of increasing clock frequency, has the potential to break abruptly Moore's law within 6-8 years, or earlier

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Identifiers

PII
S0375960102013658;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
305
Journal Issue
3-4
Journal Page Range
p. 144-149
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36084134
Subject category
S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
Descriptors DEI
CAPACITANCE; CAPACITY; COMPUTERS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MEMORY DEVICES; MINIATURIZATION; TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS; TEMPERATURE NOISE
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; NOISE; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.