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To: Rudder
A coil changes its resistance only -while- the current is passing (actually, while the current flux, the rate of change in the current, is non-zero.)

A memresistor changes its resistance -permanently-.

Pass a current through the top conductor just briefly, and the bottom titanium layer becomes, and stays, conductive. Days or years (or nanoseconds) later, pass a current through the bottom conductive layer, and the two titanium layers reverse their state, with the top layer becoming conductive.

Even after removing all source of electrical power, these memresistor devices remember their state; which of the two titanium layers is more conductive doesn't change or decay.

6 posted on 04/30/2008 5:16:13 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (By their false faith in Man as God, the left would destroy us. They call this faith change.)
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To: ThePythonicCow
A memresistor changes its resistance -permanently-.

Oh. I didn't catch that. Thanks!

15 posted on 04/30/2008 5:38:18 PM PDT by Rudder (Klinton-Kool-Aid FReepers prefer spectacle over victory.)
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