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RWebb 04-30-2008 02:06 PM

New Fundamental Circuit Element
 
Tired of just the 3? Resistors, Inductors, Capacitors?

Bored with the mere ability to change r based on direction (diode) or an applied voltage (transistors)?

This should knock your socks off:

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/scientists-prov.html

Jim Richards 04-30-2008 02:12 PM

Very cool. :)

nostatic 04-30-2008 02:13 PM

and intelligently designed :p

Jim Richards 04-30-2008 02:14 PM

and they had a devil of a time making it. :p

nostatic 04-30-2008 02:25 PM

luckily some angel VC funding came in to resurrect the project. Hallelujah!

Jim Richards 04-30-2008 02:27 PM

This thread is evolving in a way no one could prophesied.

Todd, I suggest we apologize to the thread's creator. Sorry! :)

nostatic 04-30-2008 02:39 PM

Let's end this Old Thread and begin a New Thread.

island911 04-30-2008 02:50 PM

Good post'n Randy. -thanks!

island911 04-30-2008 05:39 PM

Sooo . .. is that pronounced memri-stor . ..mem-rister . . .?

kstar 04-30-2008 06:45 PM

Besides the coolness of creating non-volatile, solid state memory, being able to hook up these very small memristors to make really small transistors could be another way to keep Moore's Law "true".

edit: See the Wiki here with several references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

edit2: Nature subscribers can find the recent paper here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/full/453042a.html

The prospect of using them to create an artificial brain is most interesting. I've read about a project where the researchers are actually modeling a neuron ( http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php ) on a chip. They have 2,000 such "chip" neurons running now simulating a slice of rat brain.

Super-small transistors built from memristors, with their special properties, could be the missing link (had to keep the theme going! :) ) to artificial brain projects.

Best,

m21sniper 04-30-2008 09:54 PM

"I'm afraid i can't do that Dave."

dhoward 05-01-2008 06:22 AM

Fundamentalist circuit elements have been responsible for terrorizing electrons since biblical times.
Oh, wait.
What?

onewhippedpuppy 05-01-2008 06:23 AM

Cool stuff.

Aurel 05-01-2008 07:22 AM

I wonder if diodes are considered a special kind of resistors, or can be represented by a combination of the 3 fundamental elements. Anyone knows? That would help me for fitting impedance data on solar cells with equivalent circuit software. Sorry for the hijack, the memristor is cool :).

Aurel


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