MEMRISTOR

Under the esteemed counsel of

J.KIRAN B.Tech, M.Tech (Ph.D)
Assoc. Professor
BITIT

By
P.V.S.R.Bharadwaja
08F31A0488
BITIT

Index

Basic Properties
Relations
History
Definition
Theory
Working
Application s
Into Market ?

Basic Properties

Relations
Resistance

dV/dI
Capacitance

d/dV

Inductance

d/dI
??????

d/dq

History of MEMRISTOR
Leon Chua, a UC Berkeley Professor contended in his
1971 paper Transactions on Circuit Theory
Thirty years after Chuas Proposal of this mysterious
device, HP senior fellow Stanley Williams and his group
were working on molecular electronics when they started to
notice strange behavior in their devices

Definition
Memristor :

The memristor is formally defined as a

two-terminal element in which the magnetic flux m between
the terminals is a function of the amount of electric charge q
that has passed through the device.
Memristance: Memristance is a property of an electronic
component to retain its resistance level even after power had
been shut down or lets it remember (or recall) the last
resistance it had before being shut off.

What Is It?

A type of electrical
circuit.
The fourth mystery
element that joins the
capacitor, resistor,
and inductor.

Theory

V(t) = M(q(t))*I(t)
This equation reveals that memristance defines a linear
relationship between current and voltage

Working

Initially, there are two layers

to the film, one of which has a
slight depletion of oxygen
atoms. The oxygen vacancies
act as charge carriers, meaning
that the depleted layer has a
much lower resistance than
the non-depleted layer. When
an electric field is applied, the
oxygen
vacancies
drift
changing
the
boundary
between the high-resistance
and low-resistance layers.

Thus the resistance of the film as a whole is dependent

on how much charge has been passed through it in a
particular direction, which is reversible by changing
the direction of current. Since the memristor displays
fast ion conduction at nanoscale, it is considered a
nanoionic device.

Applications
Brain-like systems
Memristors for
Nanoscale electronics
New 'Memristor'
Could Make
Computers Work
like Human Brains

Benefits of Memristor
Provides greater
resiliency and
reliability when power
is interrupted in data
centers.
Have great data
density.

Combines the jobs of

working memory and
hard drives into one
tiny device.
Faster and less
expensive than
MRAM.

Benefits of Memristor
Uses less energy and
produces less heat.
Would allow for a
quicker boot up since
information is not lost
when the device is
turned off.

Operating outside of
0s and 1s allows it to
imitate brain
functions.
Eliminates the need to
write computer
programs that
replicate small parts of
the brain.

Benefits of Memristor
Creating a Computer
that never has to boot
up.

Density allows for

more information to
be stored.

Does not lose

information when
turned off.

Has the capacity to

remember the charge
that flows through it at
a given point in time.

Disadvantages
M(q) approaches zero, such that
m = M(q)dq = M(q(t))I dt
remains bounded but continues
changing at an ever-decreasing
rate. Eventually, this would
encounter some kind of
quantization and unideal behavior.
When it will be in market, we can
know exactly about the
Disadvantages

Into market ???

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lee-Eun Yu, Sungho Kim, Min-Ki Ryu, Sung-Yool Choi

and Yang-Kyu Choi, Structure Effects on Resistive
Switching of Al/TiOx/Al Devices for RRAM Applications,
IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTER, VOL. 29, NO. 4,
APRIL 2008
http://www.memristor.org/