Tiny improvement for chips: Memristors

Link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7080772.stm

Professor Williams, at Hewlett Packard is exploring ways to get beyond limits to Moore's law, such as optical computing - using particles of light instead of electrons to significantly increase the speed of today's computers - and new electronic components called memristors.

Williams calls memristors the "fourth" basic element to build circuits with, after capacitors, resistors and inductors.

"Now we have this type of device we have a broader palette with which to paint our circuits," said Professor Williams.

Professor Williams has shown that when two of these are connected in a configuration called a crossbar latch - they can do the job of a transistor.

"A cross bar latch has the type of functionality you want from a transistor but it's working with very different physics," he explained.

Crucially, these devices can also be made much smaller than a transistor.

"And as they get smaller they get better," he said.

Professor Williams and his team are currently making prototype hybrid circuits - built of memristors and transistors - in a fabrication plant in North America.

"We want to keep the functional equivalent of Moore's Law going for many decades into the future," said Professor Williams.

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