Abstract
The recently popularized memristor, short for memory resistor, is investigated in this paper for its potential as a new and attractive method for enabling reconfigurable radio-frequency (RF) devices. The charge- or flux-controlled resistance of this "fourth circuit element" allows for easy reconfigurability and maintains its configured state in the absence of controlling signals. A specialized finite-difference time-domain simulation code is developed and employed to design devices with embedded memristors. The time-domain code allows observation of the nonlinear memristor switching characteristics and real-time functionality of the reconfigurable device. Several different reconfigurable RF devices are designed here to demonstrate the versatility of the memristor and determine the behavior of systems which utilize them.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 7055843 |
| Pages (from-to) | 239-248 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering