Memristor properties of high temperature superconductors

Abstract

The review of studies on memristive properties or effect of resistive switchings in four classes of high temperature superconductors is presented in order to reveal functional properties of HTSCs which become apparent in the effects under discussion, prospects of usage of high temperature superconductors based memristors in applications and search for new mechanisms of strongly correlated nature to realize new generation memristors. The properties are: undergoing metal insulator transition at oxygen doping, transport anisotropy, existence of charge reservoirs through which doping of conductive copper oxygen layers is carried out. These are the main functional properties of HTSCs which permit to use them in memristors. By the example of study of bipolar effect of resistive switching in high temperature superconductors based heterojunctions it is shown how one can form memristor structures based on high temperature superconductors using their functional properties.