Published December 2, 2002
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Journal article
End of Moore's law: thermal (noise) death of integration in micro and nano electronics
Creators
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
Additional details
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.