Robert Dennard (born September 5, 1932) is an American electrical engineer and inventor.
Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1958. His professional career was spent as a researcher for International Business Machines...
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Robert Dennard (born September 5, 1932) is an American electrical engineer and inventor.
Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1958. His professional career was spent as a researcher for International Business Machines.
In 1968, he invented dynamic random access memory (DRAM). Dennard was also among the first to recognize the tremendous potential of downsizing MOSFETs. The scaling theory he and his colleagues formulated in 1974 essentially observed that MOSFETs would continue to function as voltage-controlled switches while all key figures of merit such as layout density, operating speed, and energy efficiency would improve provided geometric dimensions, voltages, and doping concentrations were consistently scaled such as to maintain the same electric field...
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