Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Evgeny Tsymbal Publications
ORCID IDs
Tsymbal http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6728-5527
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2001
Citation
In: Solid State Physics 56; edited by H. Ehrenreich and F. Spaepen. Academic Press, 2001, pages 113-237
Abstract
Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) is one of the most fascinating discoveries in thin-film magnetism, which combines both tremendous technological potential and deep fundamental physics. Within a decade of GMR being discovered in 1988 commercial devices based on this phenomenon, such as hard-disk read-heads, magnetic field sensors and magnetic memory chips, had become available in the market. These achievements would not have been possible without a detailed understanding of the physics of GMR, which requires a quantum-mechanical insight into the electronic spin-dependent transport in magnetic structures.
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