On some modern uses of the electron in logic and memory

Physics Today

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 50-54

  Fowler, Alan ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; LOGIC CIRCUITS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOSFET DEVICES; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE;

BINARY LOGIC; MULTILEVEL LOGIC; SILICON TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTOR;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 0031258205     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.881963     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Asurvey of where things were about five years ago can be found in Robert W. Keyes, "The Future of Solid-State Electronics," PHYSICS TODAY, August 1992, p. 42.
2. To go back even further, read Rolf Landauer, "The Future Evolution of the Computer," PHYSICS TODAY, July 1970, p. 22.
3. Arecent and more optimistic view of the status of superconducting circuits may be found in Konstantin Likharev, "Superconductors Speed Up Computation," Physics World, May 1997, p. 39.
4. A discussion of the "law" that has described the growth of integrated circuits for the last 30 years is given in Robert Schiller, "Moore's Law: Past, Present and Future," IEEE Spectrum, June 1997.
5. A discussion of the future of SETs is given in Kenji Taniguchi, Masaharu Kirihara, FED Journal 7, 53 (1997). (This journal is dedicated to "Future Electron Devices.")
6. An optimistic view of the future of nano-electronics is given by David Goldhaber-Gordon et al., Proceedings of the IEEE 85, 521 (1997).
7. Vital perspective about extravagant claims may be achieved by reading Rolf Landauer, "Need for Critical Assessment," IEEE Trans, on Electron Devices 43, 1637 (1996) and Rolf Landauer, "Advanced Technology and Truth in Advertising," Physica A 168, 75 (1990). The former contains many useful references.
8. Vital perspective about extravagant claims may be achieved by reading Rolf Landauer, "Need for Critical Assessment," IEEE Trans, on Electron Devices 43, 1637 (1996) and Rolf Landauer, "Advanced Technology and Truth in Advertising," Physica A 168, 75 (1990). The former contains many useful references.