Making memristors a reality: Advances in physical understanding and device integration

Summary form only given. Memristors are the fourth fundamental circuit element which was predicted in the early 1970´s and reduced to practice in 2008. Unlike capacitors or inductors, memristors do not store charge or energy, but do store information. This quality makes them a candidate for next generation memory technology, potentially replacing Flash and DRAM, whose ability to scale to future technology nodes is limited by the fact that they rely on stored charge. Because of the ability to create highly non-linear memristive devices, this technology is feasible for true crossbar memories -without requiring select transistors.