Designing memristors: Physics, materials science and engineering

Recently, memory and storage have taken a front seat in computer hardware as it experiences an explosive growth at a rate faster than Moore´s law for the past 10 years. With the upcoming challenges for further FLASH scaling into the next generations, emerging technologies have appeared portraying perspectives with the potential to shift computer architecture concepts. Here we present a brief overview and progress in our quest to create a device with competitive attributes, with the ultimate goal of achieving a universal, non-volatile data storage solution.