CMOS-Memristor Hybrid Nanoelectronics

The memristor is the fourth fundamental passive electronic device in addition to the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. By integrating with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices, memristors show promise for development of revolutionary new nanoelectronic computing architectures with significantly reduced size and extremely low consumed power. The proposed effort explores a novel, high-payoff nanotechnology area that exploits crossbar nanoelectronic logic elements as well as the recently demonstrated phenomena of memristance. Specifically, the goal of this project was to explore CMOS-memristor hybrid nanoelectronic circuits for memory, FPGA, DSP, analog, and neuromorphic applications.