Memristors: past, present and future

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• Prof. Leon Chua, UC Berkeley
• Thursday 07 July 2011, 17:30-18:30
• Lecture Theatre 408, Electrical Engineering.

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Many researchers have identified the memristor, short for memory resistor, as the missing fourth fundamental circuit element. Its invention by Professor Leon Chua in 1971 explained hysteretic effects that had until then been considered random phenomena. Memristive devices were proposed as the right stuff for building low-power, laptop size, adaptive brain-like computers that could outperform existing supercomputers in many tasks, such as face recognition nd dynamic associative memory. Recent advances in nanotechnology are capable of taking memristors to the next level where they can replicate the complexities of the brain.

The memristor behaves like a pipe whose diameter varies according to the amount and direction of charge passing through it. If the flow of charge is stopped, the pipe’s diameter stays the same until it is switched on again, remembering the amount of current that has passed through it.

In this special lecture, Professor Leon Chua introduces the memristor and explains the theory behind it as well as the future ahead of it.

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