| Citation | Jim Scott is generally credited with being the father of integrated ferroelectrics, which is the combination of a ferroelectric thin film and a semiconductor transistor on a single chip. He answered the questions of ultimae memory speed ( 250 ps ) and film thickness ( 2.4 nm ). Previously ferroelectric devices were bulk ceramics with kilovolt switching; his thin films brought this down to 5V silicon logic levels. Every SONY Playstation 2 has a ferroelectric memory, and total sales have exceeded US one billion dollars. Jim's textbook "Ferroelectric Memories" is the Bible in the field and has been translated into Japanese and Chinese. |