Nobelist achievement in physics.....TRP likes magnetism, not electricity so much but they meet

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 10 07:45:31 CDT 2007


Although giant magnetoresistance does sound a bit like one of those mutants in the "X-Men" movie series, it actually describes a phenomenon at the junction of electricity and magnetism: When two layers of a metal such as iron are separated by a thin layer of another metal such as chromium, the application of a magnetic field can change the resistance of the structure - which determines how much electricity will flow through it.

       
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