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

abstract

• 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. 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

authors

• Kish, Laszlo

published proceedings

• PHYSICS LETTERS A

altmetric score

• 6

author list (cited authors)

• Kish, L. B.

citation count

• 290

complete list of authors

• Kish, LB

publication date

• December 2002

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics  Journal

keywords

• 49 Mathematical Sciences
• 51 Physical Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/S0375-9601(02)01365-8

start page

• 144

end page

• 149

volume

• 305

issue

• 3-4

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fs0375-9601%2802%2901365-8