Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2008 APS March Meeting
Volume 53, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 10–14, 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana
Session V3: Industrial Physics History |
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Sponsoring Units: FHP Chair: Gloria B. Lubkin, American Institute of Physics Room: Morial Convention Center RO2 - RO3 |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:15AM - 11:51AM |
V3.00001: Industrial Research at IBM Invited Speaker: |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:51AM - 12:27PM |
V3.00002: Reflections on Three Corporate Research Labs: Bell Labs, HP Labs, Agilent Labs Invited Speaker: This will be a personal reflection on corporate life and physics-based research in three industrial research labs over three decades, Bell Labs during the 1980's, HP Labs during the 1990's, and Agilent Labs during the 2000's. These were times of great change in all three companies. I'll point out some of the similarities and differences in corporate cultures and how this impacted the research and development activities. Along the way I'll mention some of the great products that resulted from physics-based R{\&}D. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:27PM - 1:03PM |
V3.00003: Application Oriented R{\&}D: Aphorisms {\&} Anecdotes (The John Bardeen Lecture) Invited Speaker: I have learned many lessons from long experience trying to perform, and lead, application oriented R{\&}D. Some of these lessons have been encapsulated in aphorisms. Some aphorisms will be presented, with explication, and illustrated with anecdotes from experience with the NAVY, ARPA, NASA and General Motors. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:03PM - 1:39PM |
V3.00004: The History of Science and Technology at Bell Labs Invited Speaker: Over the last 80 years, Bell Labs has been one of the most scientifically and technologically productive research labs in the world. Inventions such as the transistor, laser, cell phone, solar cell, negative feedback amplifier, communications satellite and many others were made there. Scientific breakthroughs such as discovery of the Big Bang, the wave nature of the electron, electron localization and the fractional quantum hall effect were also made there making Bell Labs almost unique in terms of large impacts in both science and technology. In my talk, I will discuss the history of the lab, talk about the present and give some suggestions for how I see it evolving into the future. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:39PM - 2:15PM |
V3.00005: 50 Years of ``Scaling'' Jack Kilby's Invention Invited Speaker: This year is the 50th anniversary of Jack Kilby's 1958 invention of the integrated circuit (IC), for which he won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. Since that invention in a laboratory at Texas Instruments, IC components have been continuously miniaturized, which has resulted in exponential improvement trends in their performance, energy efficiency, and cost per function. These improvements have created a semiconductor industry that has grown to over {\$}250B in annual sales. The process of reducing integrated-circuit component size and associated parameters in a coordinated fashion is traditionally called ``feature-size scaling.'' Kilby's original circuit had active (transistor) and passive (resistor, capacitor) components with dimensions of a few millimeters. Today, the minimum feature sizes on integrated circuits are less than 30 nanometers for patterned line widths and down to about one nanometer for film thicknesses. Thus, we have achieved about five orders of magnitude in linear-dimension scaling over the past fifty years, which has resulted in about ten orders of magnitude increase in the density of IC components, a representation of ``Moore's Law.'' As IC features are approaching atomic dimensions, increasing emphasis is now being given to the parallel effort of further diversifying the types of components in integrated circuits. This is called ``functional scaling'' and ``more then Moore.'' Of course, the enablers for both types of scaling have been developed at many laboratories around the world. This talk will review a few of the highlights in scaling and its applications from R{\&}D projects at Texas Instruments. [Preview Abstract] |
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