James D. Meindl
Joseph M. Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nanoelectronics: Retrospect and Prospect
The most important economic development of the 20th century was the information revolution. The principal driver of the information revolution is the silicon microchip for two salient reasons. From 1960 to 2006, the productivity of microchip technology increased by more than one billion times and simultaneously, performance increased by more that 100,000 times. Silicon microchip technology is approaching both physical and economic limits that are expected to severely curtail its rate of advance. Intensive exploratory research is aimed at discovering the next technology to propel the information revolution for the first half of the 21st century and beyond.
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