How to teach memristors in school

Abstract

A memristor is the fourth fundamental electrical element, next to resistor, capacitor and inductor. This element has attracted the interest of the scientific and engineering communities during the last few years, due to the construction of such a device by the HP-Labs in 2008. Thus, theoretical, technological, as well as practical issues about memristors have emerged. One of the practical issues is the way that memristors will be introduced in the education procedure. In this frontline an initial approach of introducing memristor teaching in schools is proposed. This course proposal is based on lab inquiring activities and utilizes the simplest device exhibiting memristive characteristics, a light bulb. © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd.