memristor

[jephly]

A team at HP has constructed a working memristor.A memristor is an often overlooked circuit element on par with the more familiar resistor, capacitor, and inductor. It has properties that cannot be constructed from any combination of the other three, and thus the ability to actually construct one (or, many, as the team at HP did) should enable the

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[zunger]

I think this deserves some !!!'s, on the same scale as a new natural element. Maybe even more. Any idea where to find some details? (I'm not a subscriber to Nature)

[jephly]

I'm not a subscriber to Nature either, but the link above works for me. (Although I am at work, perhaps we get access from here?)

Anyway, there are tons of articles floating around the web. The New York Times has a decent one, and there's one on eetimes.com that has some reasonable detail.

I give eka-Th points for being the most surprising and the more fundamental discovery, but the construction of the memristor will probably have a much greater impact.