Memristors and thermal noise: Is the memristor indeed the missing passive circuit element? Conference Paper

abstract

• 2017 IEEE. In this talk, we are briefly surveying our recent results [1] challenging the claim that the memristor is the "Missing circuit element" [2]. The crucial question is if the memristor equations guarantee that the device can be realized by passive components. With active components and feedback, arbitrary device characteristics can be realized. Recent work of Chua indicates [3] that certain type of memristor features may imply an active device. Our "thermal noise test" shows that there are infinitely many situations where the physical realization of memristor equations requires an active device. Therefore the memristor equations, in their present form, do not provide the "Missing circuit element" as an innately passive device. Traditional resistors, inductors and capacitors defined by the Maxwell's equations remain the fundamental, reliably passive building elements of electronic circuitry.

name of conference

• 2017 International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF)

authors

• Kish, Laszlo

published proceedings

• 2017 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NOISE AND FLUCTUATIONS (ICNF)

author list (cited authors)

• Sundqvist, K. M., & Kish, L. B.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Sundqvist, KM||Kish, LB

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• 2017 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NOISE AND FLUCTUATIONS (ICNF)  Journal

keywords

• Memristor
• Noise
• Second Law

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/icnf.2017.7985980

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781509027606

start page

• 1

end page

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icnf.2017.7985980