1201.2626 (Blaise Mouttet)

Memresistors and non-memristive zero-crossing hysteresis curves    [PDF]

Blaise Mouttet

It has been erroneously asserted by the circuit theorist Leon Chua that all
zero-crossing pinched hysteresis curves define memristors. This claim has been
used by Stan Williams of HPLabs to assert that all forms of RRAM and phase
change memory are memristors. This paper demonstrates several examples of
dynamic systems which fall outside of the constraints of memristive systems and
yet also produce the same type of zero-crossing hysteresis curves claimed as a
fingerprint for a memristor. This establishes that zero-crossing hysteresis
serves as insufficient evidence for a memristor. Keywords- nonlinear dynamic
systems, memresistor, phase change memory, RRAM, ReRAM

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2626