Reality Versus Fiction

In this chapter we show that the mathematical definition of memristors and other memory circuit elements (such as memcapacitors and meminductors) is simply a special case of the most general notion of response functions we have introduced in the previous chapter. It will then be clear that (i) memelements are not fundamental circuit elements, and (ii) they have to satisfy specific physical properties. This will allow us to determine which mathematical definitions are consistent with reality, and which are not.