New Memristive Materials
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 2753
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemistry materials science chemical engineering; photochemistry of coordination compounds and bioinorganic chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to contribute manuscripts to the new Special Issue of Molecules, entitled “New Memristive Materials.” For the past twelve years, a rapid growth of interest in experimental and theoretical research on memristive materials has been observed. Everything started in the early 70’s of 20th century though–when Prof. Leon Chua has presented the theory of the fourth basic passive circuit element. In 2008, the first link between theory and physical device has been prevented by Strukov et al., a finding which has initiated vigorous research on resistive switching. It must be noted, however, that electrical peculiarities, now assigned the term memristance, has been reported many times during last two centuries. The field is not free of controversies – numerous reports falsify the concept of memristor, the other confirm it. Recent development of fractional memristors makes the whole story even more complex.
Leaving controversies aside, the nonlinear circuit elements, usually called memristors, proved to be useful as unconventional memory elements, acting as building blocks for non-von Neumann computing architectures. They have helped to change the computations paradigm of many-state logic and analogue processing. Nowadays - state-of-the-art, in the future – yet another ordinary computer parts. Will it be true and can it happen during our lifetimes – most likely so!
Characteristic pinched hysteresis loop (I-V curve) occurs due to more than one phenomenon – including ionic or vacancy motions, electron tunnelling, charge carrier bulk transport, filament formation and disruption, modulation of the Schottky barrier height, etc. This can depend on electrode materials and methods of synthesis of memristive compound or pre- and post-treatment of nano devices. Sufficient scientific knowledge of all foundations allows for implementing simple neuromorphic behaviour in memristive materials, which include a variety of oxides, halide perovskites, chalcogenides, polymers and organic compounds.
This Special Issue will focus on both the synthesis and characterization of the memristive materials mentioned above. We encourage potential authors to propose deep mechanical insights on memristive effects, most likely on atomic/molecular levels; and, to explore new memristive materials and new theoretical models addressing the mechanistic aspects of memristive switching. Manuscripts describing original research, deep theoretical analyses, as well as perspectives will be welcome.
We hope that this Special Issue of Molecules will provide the grounds for a vigorous discussion on the principles of memristance, its mechanistic and materials aspects, and maybe, it will help to solve some fundamental controversies.
Dr. Tomasz Mazur
Prof. Dr. Konrad Szaciłowski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- memristor
- neuromorphic computing
- charge carrier transport mechanisms
- memristance
- synaptic plasticity
- switching phenomena
- I-V curve
- hysteresis
- resistive switching memory
- Moore’s law
- non-von Neumann architecture
