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ITIF Panel: Future of Moore’s Law: Semiconductor Innovation & the High Tech Economy Microelectronics: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Sanjay K. Banerjee Director, Microelectronics Research Center Univ. of Texas at Austin

Moore’s Law No exponential is forever! But can we delay “ forever ” ? Invention of the IC by Nobel Laureate Jack Kilby of TI in 1958

Societal Impact • The $300 billion IC industry drives a $1 trillion electronics business, and has been the lifeblood of the Information Age for the past 50 years. • Average person owns over a 100 billion transistors. • 100,000 transistors would fit across, and cost less than a single grain of rice. drain source

The Other Energy Crisis! New switch?

Strategic Paths to Innovation • R&D investments in Tier 1 schools must increase to make us competitive with high tech powerhouses EU, Japan, … and increasingly China. • Example of successful partnership between Emerging Technology Fund of Texas, Texas Universities and Industry is the NRI South West Academy of Nanoelectronics at UT Austin, Dallas, Arlington, A&M & Rice: funded by Intel, IBM, TI, Micron, Global Foundries and NIST. • The Bilayer Pseudospin Field Effect Transistor could consume 0.1% of the energy of conventional transistors if it can be made. V Gn V n V p V Gp

Opportunities for Transformation Things Natural Things Manmade 1 cm 10 -2 m 10 mm The Head of a pin Challenge 1-2 mm Ant 1,000,000 nanometers = 10 -3 m ~ 5 mm 1 millimeter (mm) Dust mite Microwave MicroElectroMechanica 200 µ m l (MEMS) devices 10 -100 µ m wide 0.1 mm 10 -4 m 100 µ m Human hair ~ 60-120 µ m wide P O O O Microworld Fly ash O O O O ~ 10-20 µ m O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O 0.01 mm 10 -5 m S S S S S S S S 10 µ m Pollen grain Red blood cells Infrared Red blood cells with white cell ~ 2-5 µ m Zone plate x-ray “lens” 1,000 nanometers = 1 micrometer ( µ m) Outer ring spacing ~35 nm 10 -6 m Visible Fabricate and combine nanoscale building blocks to Smaller is different! make useful devices, e.g., 0.1 µ m 10 -7 m a photosynthetic 100 nm reaction center Ultraviolet with integral Nanoworld semiconductor storage. Self-assembled, ~10 nm 0.01 µ m Nature-inspired structure ATP 10 -8 m diameter synthase Many 10s of nm 10 nm Nanotube electrode 10 -9 m 1 nanometer (nm) Carbon buckyball Soft x-ray More is different! ~1 nm diameter Atoms of silicon DNA ~2-1/2 nm diameter Quantum corral of 48 iron atoms on copper surface spacing ~tenths Carbon nanotube 10 -10 m 0.1 nm positioned one at a time with an STM tip of nm ~1.3 nm diameter Corral diameter 14 nm Office of Basic Energy Sciences Office of Science, U.S. DOE Version 10-07-03, pmd