Memristors with flexible electronic applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1971-1978

  Gergel Hackett, Nadine ^a   Tedesco, Joseph L ^a   Richter, Curt A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible electronics; Flexible memory; Memristor; Resistive memory

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MEMRISTORS; SOL-GELS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; FLEXIBLE MEMORY; FLEXIBLE POLYMER SUBSTRATES; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; MEMRISTOR; RESISTIVE MEMORY;

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84861198001     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2158284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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