Abstract A gas discharge lamp is a device, which operates as a light source by producing electrical discharge in ionized gaseous medium. Discharge lamps are commonly used in the market and according to their physical properties they can be mainly classified in three different categories: high pressure, low pressure and high-intensity lamps. Ionized gases have tendency to produce ongoing discharges and finally electrical arcs, which exhibit memristor characteristics proposed by Leon Chua. This paper introduces a novel fully floating memristor circuit emulator with tunable threshold characteristics which mimic discharge lamp characteristics. In order to investigate discharge lamp characteristics a test set-up is designed and commercially available discharge lamps are tested. The proposed memristor circuit displays distinctive characteristics in contrast to well-known smooth switching memristor characteristics in terms of hard switching capability. Proposed memristor has unique switching behavior and fully capable of modeling discharge lamps since it satisfies required zero-crossing, pinched hysteresis and frequency dependent characteristics of the discharge lamps. The comparisons of the current-voltage characteristics for both memristor and discharge lamps are supplied and investigated.

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使用具有可调阈值的浮动忆阻器电路仿真器对放电灯特性进行建模

摘要 气体放电灯是一种通过在电离气体介质中产生放电而作为光源工作的装置。放电灯是市场上常用的放电灯，根据其物理特性主要可分为三类：高压灯、低压灯和高强度灯。电离气体倾向于产生持续放电并最终产生电弧，这表现出 Leon Chua 提出的忆阻器特性。本文介绍了一种新型全浮置忆阻器电路仿真器，该仿真器具有模拟放电灯特性的可调阈值特性。为了研究放电灯特性，设计了测试装置并测试了市售的放电灯。与众所周知的平滑切换忆阻器特性相比，所提出的忆阻器电路在硬开关能力方面显示出独特的特性。所提出的忆阻器具有独特的开关行为，并且完全能够模拟放电灯，因为它满足放电灯所需的过零、收缩滞后和频率相关特性。提供并研究了忆阻器和放电灯的电流-电压特性的比较。