A podcast episode about research and development of microelectronics.
The race to make smaller and smaller electronic chips is coming to an end, after many decades of creative engineering. Individual transistors are now just a few nanometers (that’s billionths of a meter) in length, so there’s not much more shrinking to be done. But there is still a lot of room for improvement. The 20th century effort to pack transistors onto tiny silicon wafers transformed clunky, heavy early electronics into the sleek, portable devices we see today. The challenges of the 21st century will be to make these microelectronics energy efficient and to push the boundaries of what’s possible in a world increasingly integrated with technology.
This episode's guests are Sinéad Griffin and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
02/09/22 • 48 min
A Day in the Half-Life - More Microchips, Moore Problems
Transcript
Aliyah
This is A Day in the Half-Life. I'm Aliyah Kovner, and in this episode, we're talking about microelectronics.
Ramesh
What is microelectronics? Uh, every time you use your cell phone or you open up your computer to pay your bills, you're using microelectronics.
Aliyah
That is Ramesh, a professor of physics and material science at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab in the Energy Scien
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