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. 2008 May 1;453(7191):80-3.
doi: 10.1038/nature06932.

The missing memristor found

Dmitri B Strukov  1 , Gregory S Snider, Duncan R Stewart, R Stanley Williams
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The missing memristor found

Dmitri B Strukov et al. Nature. .

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  • Nature. 2009 Jun 25;459(7250):1154

Abstract

Anyone who ever took an electronics laboratory class will be familiar with the fundamental passive circuit elements: the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor. However, in 1971 Leon Chua reasoned from symmetry arguments that there should be a fourth fundamental element, which he called a memristor (short for memory resistor). Although he showed that such an element has many interesting and valuable circuit properties, until now no one has presented either a useful physical model or an example of a memristor. Here we show, using a simple analytical example, that memristance arises naturally in nanoscale systems in which solid-state electronic and ionic transport are coupled under an external bias voltage. These results serve as the foundation for understanding a wide range of hysteretic current-voltage behaviour observed in many nanoscale electronic devices that involve the motion of charged atomic or molecular species, in particular certain titanium dioxide cross-point switches.

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  • Electronics: the fourth element.
    Tour JM, He T. Tour JM, et al. Nature. 2008 May 1;453(7191):42-3. doi: 10.1038/453042a. Nature. 2008. PMID: 18451847 No abstract available.

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