Date of Award
Spring 2022
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Physics and Astronomy
First Advisor
Yuriy V. Pershin
Abstract
In early seventies, the memristor was introduced as the fourth fundamental nonlinear two-terminal circuit element coupling the charge and flux by Dr. L. Chua. In 2008, the experimental discovery of the memristor was announced triggering significant interest in the development of resistance switching memory devices and their applications. According to Chua, the pinched hysteresis loop in the current-voltage characteristic of experimental memory devices is the fingerprint of memristors (“if it’s pinched it’s a memristor”). However, such loops are not an exclusive feature of memristors as they are also found in the response of other devices with memory that are not ideal memristors. Recently, an unambiguous test to find whether a resistive device with memory is a memristor or not has been proposed. In this thesis, the memristor test is applied experimentally to several devices that were previously claimed to be memristors. In particular, the test is applied to: (i) in-house fabricated Cu-SiO2 cell, (ii) commercially available resistance switching memory cells, and (iii) so-called “Φ–memristor” (the latter was recently named as the “real memristor”). The results of the test indicate that all devices considered in this thesis are not memristors.
Rights
© 2022, Jinsun Kim
Recommended Citation
Kim, J.(2022). Application of the Test for Memristor to Experimental Memory Devices. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/6732