A TEAM looking for new ways to store computer data have stumbled across the “missing link” of electronics: an elusive device known as the memristor.
Electronic engineers have been looking in vain for the memristor since it was back in 1971 by , then a young circuit designer at the University of California, Berkeley. Chua was studying the behaviour of resistors, capacitors and inductors – the only three passive components used in circuit design to date – when he realised something was missing.
Each of these components relates two of the four basic variables that describe the state of…
