Book Description:
The 2007 Nobel Prize in physics was been awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg for simultaneously and independently discovering giant magnetoresistance. This property has allowed the explosion of disk-space growth and is cited as being one of the first nanotechnology breakthroughs. From the announcement: "Very weak magnetic changes give rise to major differences in electrical resistance in a GMR system. A system of this kind is the perfect tool for reading data from hard disks when information registered magnetically has to be converted to electric current." This new book presents the latest research in this explosive field.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Microwave GMR In Magnetic Metallic Multilayers;pp. 1-62
(Vladimir V. Ustinov, Anatoly B. Rinkevich, Lazar N. Romashev, Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia)

Spin Transfer Torques in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions;pp. 63-106
(A. Manchon, Spintec, CEA/Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, France, N. Ryzhanova, Spintec, CEA/Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, France, Department of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, M. Chshiev, MINT Center, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA, et al.)

Magnetoresistance and Phase Separation in Cobalt Oxides;pp. 107-156
(Motin Seikh, Laboratoire CRISMAT, Univ. de Caen, Cedex - France, Visva-Bharati Univ., West Bengal, India)

Influence of Single-Ion Anisotropy on the Exchange Bias In "Ferromagnet-Antiferromagnet" System;pp. 157-182
(A.I. Morosov, A.S. Sigov, Moscow State Institute of Radioengineering, Electronics, and Automation (Technical University) Moscow, Russia)

Emissivity - A Remote Sensor of Giant Magnetoresistance with Spatial Resolution;pp. 183-206
(S.M. Stirk, S.M. Thompson, J.A.D. Matthew, Department of Physics, University of York, York, United Kingdom)

Research Trend in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions;pp. 207-237
(Haiwen Xi, Dexin Wang, Zheng Gao, Seagate Technology, Bloomingtom, Minnesota, USA)

GMR Based Electrical Current Sensors;pp. 239-275
(C. Reig, M.D. Cubells-Beltr'an, D. Ram'irez, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Valencia)

Index