The long-sought memristor-until now a missing link in electronic circuit theory-has been invented by Hewlett-Packard senior fellow R. Stanley Williams. HP says it created a thin film that changes resistance when current passes through it; this could someday lead to a nanoscale alternative to flash memory or solutions to the problem of ever-smaller circuits generating too much power and heat. Memristors-the fourth passive component type besides resistors, capacitors, and inductors-were postulated in 1971 by University of California, Berkeley, professor Leon Chua. "The era of nanoscale electronics will be enabled by the memristor," Chua says. "This is not just an invention, it is a basic sci- entific discovery."
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机译：惠普公司资深研究员R. Stanley Williams发明了人们一直期待已久的忆阻器，直到现在在电子电路理论中缺少联系。惠普说，它创造了一种薄膜，当电流通过时，薄膜会改变电阻。有朝一日，这可能会导致闪存成为纳米级替代产品，或者解决越来越小的电路产生太多功率和热量的问题的解决方案。忆阻器-除电阻器，电容器和电感器之外的第四种无源元件类型-1971年由加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的Leon Chua教授提出。蔡说：“纳米电子学的时代将由忆阻器实现。” “这不仅是一项发明，而且是一项基本的科学发现。”
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