magnetoresistance

‘Ordinary’ magnetoresistance is observed in common non-ferromagnetic metals.

And the Physics Nobel Prize goes to… « Skulls in the Stars 2007

Ordinary magnetoresistance is a small effect, too small for application in hard drives.

And the Physics Nobel Prize goes to… « Skulls in the Stars 2007

Giant magnetoresistance is essentially a quantum mechanical effect depending on the property of electron spin.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 - Speed Read 2007

¹ The commercial devices called magnetoresistance has been produced as early as 1997!

THE LIBRARY BEYOND 2010 2007

Fert and Grünberg received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on giant magnetoresistance, showing that tiny changes in magnetism can generate large changes in electrical resistance.

History and Impact « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010

Albert Fert (born March 7, 1938) is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. binaryspiral

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This is awesome: FERT in the wild! 2008

[AS] – And now the applications of giant magnetoresistance have been many and various.

Peter Grünberg - Interview 2007

The electrons in the illustration are represented by small magnets as it is their magnetic qualities that give rise to giant magnetoresistance.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 2007

So, the award is for your discovery, together with Albert Fert, of giant magnetoresistance ...

Peter Grünberg - Interview 2007

Because two years before that time I had discovered the antiferromagnetic interlayer exchange coupling and I reported on that in various conferences and Albert Fert heard one of these talks and decided that, for the kind of physics he is doing, namely magnetoresistance effects in diluted alloys, that would be an interesting configuration to investigate this effect also in the layered structures with the antiferromagnetic exchange coupling.

Peter Grünberg - Interview 2007