The missing memristor found

Dmitri B. Strukov, Gregory S. Snider, Duncan R. Stewart and R. Stanley Williams ()
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Dmitri B. Strukov: HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Gregory S. Snider: HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Duncan R. Stewart: HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
R. Stanley Williams: HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7191, 80-83

Abstract: Memristance movement Basic electronics textbooks list three fundamental passive circuit elements: resistors, capacitors and inductors. But nearly forty years ago, Leon Chua predicted the existence of a fourth, the memristor — in effect a nonlinear resistor with memory. A paper from the Hewlett-Packard research lab now reports that memristance arises naturally in nanoscale systems where solid-state electronic and ionic transport are coupled under an external bias voltage. This finding can help explain many examples of apparently anomalous hysteretic current–voltage behaviour observed in electronic devices during the past 50 years. Memristors may have a significant impact on future electronic circuits by dramatically increasing the functional density over that achieved by transistors.

Date: 2008
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