<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The memristor (short for memory resistor) is a yet quite unknown circuit element, though equally fundamental as resistors, capacitors, and coils. It was predicted from theory arguments nearly 40 years ago, but not realized as a physical component until recently. The memristor shows many interesting features when describing electrical phenomena, especially at small (molecular or cellular) scales and can in particular be useful for bioimpedance and bioelectricity modeling. It can also give us a richer and much improved conceptual understanding of many such phenomena. Up until today the tools available for circuit modeling have been restricted to the three circuit elements (RLC) as well as the widely used constant phase element (CPE). However, as one element has been missing in our modeling toolbox, many bioelectrical phenomena may have been described incompletely as they are indeed memristive. Such memristive behavior is not possible to capture within a traditional RLC framework. In this paper we will introduce the memristor and look at bioelectrical memristive phenomena. The goal is to explain the new memristor’s properties in a simple manner as well as to highlight its importance and relevance. We conclude that memristors must be included as a readily used building block for bioimpedance and bioelectrical data analysis and modeling.</p></abstract>

The memristor (short for memory resistor) is a yet quite unknown circuit element, though equally fundamental as resistors, capacitors, and coils. It was predicted from theory arguments nearly 40 years ago, but not realized as a physical component until recently. The memristor shows many interesting features when describing electrical phenomena, especially at small (molecular or cellular) scales and can in particular be useful for bioimpedance and bioelectricity modeling. It can also give us a richer and much improved conceptual understanding of many such phenomena. Up until today the tools available for circuit modeling have been restricted to the three circuit elements (RLC) as well as the widely used constant phase element (CPE). However, as one element has been missing in our modeling toolbox, many bioelectrical phenomena may have been described incompletely as they are indeed memristive. Such memristive behavior is not possible to capture within a traditional RLC framework. In this paper we will introduce the memristor and look at bioelectrical memristive phenomena. The goal is to explain the new memristor’s properties in a simple manner as well as to highlight its importance and relevance. We conclude that memristors must be included as a readily used building block for bioimpedance and bioelectrical data analysis and modeling.

An introduction to the memristor – a valuable circuit element in bioelectricity and bioimpedance

Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance

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The memristor (short for memory resistor) is a yet quite unknown circuit element, though equally fundamental as resistors, capacitors, and coils. It was...

An introduction to the memristor – a valuable circuit element in bioelectricity and bioimpedance

Article Category: Tutorial Article

Published Online: Aug 09, 2012

Page range: 20 - 28

Received: Jun 11, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jeb.305

Keywords
Memristor, bioimpedance, bioelectricity, new circuit element, electrical memory

© 2012 Gorm K. Johnsen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An introduction to the memristor – a valuable circuit element in bioelectricity and bioimpedance

Article Category: Tutorial Article

Published Online: Aug 09, 2012

Page range: 20 - 28

Received: Jun 11, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jeb.305

KeywordsMemristor, bioimpedance, bioelectricity, new circuit element, electrical memory

© 2012 Gorm K. Johnsen, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Memristor, bioimpedance, bioelectricity, new circuit element, electrical memory