The 2013 Kyoto Prize Workshops
/ Electronics Engineer
Electronics
2013
11 /12 Tue
10:00 - 17:00
Place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Address:Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan
Robert Heath Dennard
Electronics Engineer
Dr. Robert Heath Dennard invented the basic structure of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), which is now extensively utilized as one of integrated circuit (IC) memory systems. His innovation has immensely increased the capacity of digital information storage, leading to dramatic progress in information and telecommunications technology. Dr. Dennard and his colleagues also proposed guidelines, called “scaling theory”, to miniaturize field-effect transistors, which play key roles in most ICs, including DRAM, thereby promoting the amazing advance in IC technology.