Dennard, Robert

Robert Dennard (born September 5, 1932) is an American electrical engineer and inventor.

Robert Dennard
Robert H. Dennard
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Place of Birth
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Scientific field	electrical engineering
Place of work	Ibm
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Academic degree	Ph.D.
Known as	inventor of DRAM and scaling law
Awards and prizes	[d] ( 1982 )

Dennard was born in Terrell , Texas , USA . He received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University of Dallas in 1954 and 1956, respectively. Received a doctorate degree from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1958. He was a researcher at International Business Machines .

His most famous invention was made in 1968 - the invention of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). Dennard was also among the first to recognize the enormous potential of MOS structures . In 1974, Dennard's Scaling Theory , which explains Moore's law, was developed by Robert Dennard and his IBM colleagues. Working on the MOSFET field-effect transistors and MOS structures, Dennard derived the condition necessary to comply with Moore's law. The essence of the discovery is that if you keep the value of the electric field constant while decreasing the size of the transistor, the performance parameters improve. In the process of research, Dennard was able to show that MOS structures have great potential for miniaturization.