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Published in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 7/2015

Open Access 01-07-2015 | Review

Overview of emerging memristor families from resistive memristor to spintronic memristor

Authors: Lei Wang, CiHui Yang, Jing Wen, Shan Gai, YuanXiu Peng

Published in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics | Issue 7/2015

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Abstract

Memristor is a fundamental circuit element in addition to resistor, capacitor, and inductor. As it can remember its resistance state even encountering a power off, memristor has recently received widespread applications from non-volatile memory to neural networks. The current memristor family mainly comprises resistive memristor, polymeric memristor, ferroelectric memristor, manganite memristor, resonant-tunneling diode memristor, and spintronic memristor in terms of the materials the device is made of. In order to help researcher better understand the physical principles of the memristor, and thus to provide a promising prospect for memristor devices, this paper presents an overview of memristor materials properties, switching mechanisms, and potential applications. The performance comparison among different memristor members is also given.

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Metadata
Title
Overview of emerging memristor families from resistive memristor to spintronic memristor
Authors
Lei Wang
CiHui Yang
Jing Wen
Shan Gai
YuanXiu Peng
Publication date
01-07-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics / Issue 7/2015
Print ISSN: 0957-4522
Electronic ISSN: 1573-482X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-015-2848-z

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