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How we predicted the memristor

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The memristor — a resistor with memory — was first postulated back in 1971, but it took nearly four decades before it was experimentally confirmed. Leon O. Chua explains how he developed a nonlinear circuit theory in which the memristor emerges naturally as the fourth basic circuit element.

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Fig. 1: The four fundamental two-terminal circuit elements.

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Chua, L.O. How we predicted the memristor. Nat Electron 1, 322 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0074-4

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