Electronics' 'missing link' found

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5-2-2008 1:52 AM

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					Electronics' 'missing link' found
				</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7377063.stm"><B>Details of an entirely new kind of electronic device, which could make chips smaller and far more efficient, have been outlined by scientists. </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7377063.stm"><P>
The new components, described by scientists at Hewlett-Packard, are known as "memristors".
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The devices were proposed 40 years ago but have only recently been fabricated, the team wrote in the journal Nature.
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They have already been used to build novel transistors - tiny switches that are the building blocks of all chips.
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"Now we have this type of device we have a broader palette with which to paint our circuits," Professor Stan Williams, one of the team, told the BBC last year.
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<B>Total recall</B>
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Memristors were first proposed in 1971 by Professor Leon Chua, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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They are the "fourth" basic building block of circuits, after capacitors, resistors and inductors.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7377063.stm"><P>
"I never thought I'd live long enough to see this happen," Professor Chua told the Associated Press. 
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