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Offline Cobra951

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Nobel prize for Giant Magnetoresistance
« on: Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 11:15:39 PM »
Giant Magnetoresistance is what makes modern hard drives possible.  I had no idea until I heard this story on NPR earlier today.  There was literally a quantum leap in technology to make them possible, starting around 1997.

Edit: This is only about 3 clicks away from my first link.  It's a better description, and official to boot.
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Offline Quemaqua

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Re: Nobel prize for Giant Magnetoresistance
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, October 09, 2007, 11:35:54 PM »
I'm way too tired to process that on any real level, but it's interesting.  I had no idea either.
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Re: Nobel prize for Giant Magnetoresistance
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 03:20:32 AM »
I read about this in Wired today, cool stuff and they deserve it, it made a pretty huge leap in electronic storage.
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