
1) American invention 2) Electrical component
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The memristor (ər; a portmanteau of `memory resistor`) was originally envisioned in 1971 by circuit theorist Leon Chua as a missing non-linear passive two-terminal electrical component relating electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. According to the governing mathematical relations, the memristor`s electrical resistance is not constant but......
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