{"id":196095,"date":"2024-09-12T21:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/solving-a-memristor-mystery-to-develop-efficient-long-lasting-memory-devices"},"modified":"2024-09-12T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T02:23:13","slug":"solving-a-memristor-mystery-to-develop-efficient-long-lasting-memory-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/solving-a-memristor-mystery-to-develop-efficient-long-lasting-memory-devices","title":{"rendered":"Solving a memristor mystery to develop efficient, long-lasting memory devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solving-a-memristor-mystery-to-develop-efficient-long-lasting-memory-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phase separation, when molecules part like oil and water, works alongside oxygen diffusion to help memristors \u2013 electrical components that store information using electrical resistance \u2013 retain information even after the power is shut off, according to a University of Michigan led study published in Matter (\u201cThermodynamic origin of nonvolatility in resistive memory\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Up to this point, explanations have not fully grasped how memristors retain information without a power source, known as nonvolatile memory, because models and experiments do not match up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile experiments have shown devices can retain information for over 10 years, the models used in the community show that information can only be retained for a few hours,\u201d said Jingxian Li, U-M doctoral graduate of materials science and engineering and first author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phase separation, when molecules part like oil and water, works alongside oxygen diffusion to help memristors \u2013 electrical components that store information using electrical resistance \u2013 retain information even after the power is shut off, according to a University of Michigan led study published in Matter (\u201cThermodynamic origin of nonvolatility in resistive memory\u201d). Up to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}