In this, the Information Age, we hear almost daily
of advances in the speed of computers, of more efficient
integrated circuit chips, and of new digital marvels to
improve our lives or expand the ways we spend our leisure time
(1). During the last 40 years, computers have become more
powerful as their basic element, the transistor, has become
smaller and smaller. An article elsewhere in this issue (2) briefly
describes how advances in the development of materials
and "bottoms-up" materials-processing methods have enabled
this miniaturization. The microelectronics industry has
continued to respond to new technological challenges as the
dimensions of integrated circuits have shrunk. The most recent
"road map" for the future issued by the National
Semiconductor Association (3) projects advances in the technology
at least to 2012.
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