The first man-made memristor: Circa 1801

Deyan Lin; Leon Chua; Shu-Yuen Hui

doi:10.1109/JPROC.2014.2374754

The first man-made memristor: Circa 1801

Deyan Lin, Leon Chua, Shu-Yuen Hui

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This article reexamines the historical carbon arc discharge experiment conducted by Humphry Davy in 1801. We present experimental evidence which indicates that such a carbon arc discharge is not only the first artificial light source, but also the world's first man-made memristor ever reported in the scientific literature. The original carbon arc discharge experiment has been repeated with modern power supply equipment with bipolar excitation capability. The carbon arc discharge exhibits the three fingerprints of memristors, including the pinched hysteresis loops, the lobe area changing with operating frequency, and such lobe area approaching zero as the operating frequency increases. © 2014 IEEE.

Original language	English
Article number	6994321
Pages (from-to)	131-136
Journal	Proceedings of the IEEE
Volume	103
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2014.2374754
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes

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discharge
memristor
modeling

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