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The Memristor: Theory and Realization

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Memristor is a two-terminal passive element. Even though the behavior of the memristor was investigated for two centuries ago, the concept of the memristor as the fourth circuit element was proposed by Leon Chua in 1971 (Prodromakis et al. in Nat Mater 11:478–481, [1]).

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Rahma, F., Muneam, S. (2019). The Memristor: Theory and Realization. In: Memristive Nonlinear Electronic Circuits. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11921-8_2

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