Life-Cycle Assessment of Semiconductors
Life-Cycle Assessment of Semiconductors presents the first and thus far only available transparent and complete life cycle assessment of semiconductor devices. A lack of reliable semiconductor LCA data has been a major challenge to evaluation of the poten
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Sarah B. Boyd
Life-Cycle Assessment of Semiconductors Foreword by Arpad Horvath
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Sarah B. Boyd PE International 344 Boylston Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02116, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-9987-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-9988-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9988-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934752 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This work is dedicated to Jean G. Boyd
Foreword
In the 2010 Oscar-nominated movie The Social Network, much is made of the importance of brilliant ideas, computer algorithms, business models, copyrights, and other legal issues surrounding the creation and launch of one of the most popular internet companies. What is not talked about is that without the microchips and other semiconductor devices filling mushrooming data centers and demanding the electricity output of entire power plants, nothing of the social network depicted in the movie and growing larger each day would exist, and the internet economy as we know it, worth hundreds of billions of dollars would not operate. We would not have had the “internet revolution” of the last decade and a half, and we would be devoid of the delicious speculations about the unfathomable growth of the internet economy in the times to come. Oh, and this movie would not have been made. Sarah Boyd’s book fills several gaps. It provides the most comprehensive environmental assessment of semiconductor manufacturing to date. She summarizes the existing literature critically and selectively, and through her own research provides data, approaches, models, and results that complement prior work or offer original results. Both approaches are, of course, admirable, but this book is not primarily a synthesis, a meta study of prior work, annotated and improved. Sarah Boyd did not have the luxury of standing on the shoulder of giants. Rather this is dominantly a compendium of Dr. Boyd’s research results that she arrived at by using lots of original ideas, insights, approaches, and data. This book provides results for products for which no results or merely approximations were available heretofore. Many data points were collected directly from company processes, and m
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