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Practical method to make a discrete memristor based on the aqueous solution of copper sulfate

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A new method to realize a discrete memristor is proposed. The device under study consists of a tube filled of aqueous saturated solution of copper sulfate which can be electrolyzed by using two asymmetric copper electrodes, one of which has a considerably smaller cross-sectional area than to the other one. It is shown both theoretically and experimentally that this device has exactly the properties of a memristor if it is designed such that the electrical field and the current density on the thinner electrode when it acts as anode are sufficiently large. Different aspects of the proposed discrete memristor, including pinched hysteresis loop, on-off resistance ratio and memory volatilization, are studied and experimental results are presented.

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  1. Note that by applying a sufficiently small positive voltage to the proposed memristor, the resulted electric field will not be strong enough to effectively form new CuO molecules on anode, and consequently, the memristance will not be increased during measurement. But a very accurate tool is needed for measurement of the resulted small electric current in this case.

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Merrikh-Bayat, F., Parvizi, M. Practical method to make a discrete memristor based on the aqueous solution of copper sulfate. Appl. Phys. A 122, 602 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-016-0132-6

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