Ongoing developments into memristor technologies have helped
researchers come even closer to bendable, wearable electronics.
Memristors are a fourth class of electric circuit, and, despite
being hypothesised in the seventies, are a very new addition to
the transistors, capacitors and inductors that usually make up
chips. And now researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology (KAIST), have found a novel use for
memristors that could see bendable electronics become
commonplace in the “near future”. The team says that one of the
main problems with the production of flexible electronics has
been the development of operational flexible memory. However
they believe that they have solved this with what they describe
as “fully functional” flexible resistive random access memory
(RRAM). With this memory, they say, a cell can be randomly
accessed, written and erased on a plastic substrate that is able
to be bend and rolled easily. It is not the first time that
flexible memory has been under deve