Memory circuit elements: from systems to applications

TL;DR

This paper reviews memory circuit elements like memristors, memcapacitors, and meminductors, highlighting their modeling and diverse applications, especially focusing on memristors, and emphasizing their growing importance at the nanoscale.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of memory circuit elements, their modeling, and applications, with a focus on memristors, and discusses their potential at the nanoscale.

Findings

Memory phenomena are ubiquitous at the nanoscale.

Memristors have diverse applications from analog programming to biological systems.

Interest in memory circuit elements is expected to grow.

Abstract

In this paper, we briefly review the concept of memory circuit elements, namely memristors, memcapacitors and meminductors, and then discuss some applications by focusing mainly on the first class. We present several examples, their modeling and applications ranging from analog programming to biological systems. Since the phenomena associated with memory are ubiquitous at the nanoscale, we expect the interest in these circuit elements to increase in coming years.