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Sign in to saveA memristor (; a portmanteau of memory resistor) is a non-linear two-terminal electrical component relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. It was described and named in 1971 by Leon Chua, completing a theoretical quartet of fundamental electrical components which also comprises the resistor, capacitor and inductor.
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- Memristor developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and National Energy Technology Laboratory
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- Leon Chua
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- Relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage
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45 sectionsContents
- As a fundamental electrical component
- Derivation and characteristics
- Modelling and validation
- Superconducting memristor component
- Memristor circuits
- Criticisms
- Experimental tests
- Theory
- Operation as a switch
- Memristive systems
- Pinched hysteresis
- Memristive networks and mathematical models of circuit interactions
- Extended systems
- Implementation of hysteretic current-voltage memristors
- Titanium dioxide memristor
- Silicon dioxide memristor
- Polymeric memristor
- Layered memristor
- Atomristor
- Ferroelectric memristor
- Carbon nanotube memristor
- Biomolecular memristor
- Spin memristive systems
- Spintronic memristor
- Memristance in a magnetic tunnel junction
- Extrinsic mechanism
- Intrinsic mechanism
- Spin memristive system
- Self-directed channel memristor
- Implementation of hysteretic flux-charge memristors
- Time-integrated Formingfree memristor
- Potential applications
- Derivative devices
- Memistor and memtransistor
- Memcapacitors and meminductors
- Memfractance and memfractor, 2nd- and 3rd-order memristor, memcapacitor and meminductor
- History
- Precursors
- Theoretical description
- Twenty-first century
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
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A memristor (; a portmanteau of memory resistor) is a non-linear two-terminal electrical component relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. It was described and named in 1971 by Leon Chua, completing a theoretical quartet of fundamental electrical components which also comprises the resistor, capacitor and inductor.
Chua and Kang later generalized the concept to memristive systems. Such a system comprises a circuit, of multiple conventional components, which mimics key properties of the ideal memristor component and is also commonly referred to as a memristor. Several such memristor system technologies have been developed, notably ReRAM.