A Memadmittance Systems Model for Thin Film Memory Materials

Abstract

In 1971 the memristor was originally postulated as a new non-linear circuit element relating the time integrals of current and voltage. More recently researchers at HPLabs have linked the theoretical memristor concept to resistance switching behavior of TiO(2-x) thin films. However, a variety of other thin film materials exhibiting memory resistance effects have also been found to exhibit a memory capacitance effect. This paper proposes a memadmittance (memory admittance) systems model which attempts to consolidate the memory capacitance effects with the memristor model. The model produces equations relating the cross-sectional area of conductive bridges in resistive switching films to shifts in capacitance.