GMR - Giant Magnetoresistive Heads - overview
Physics Accomplishment | 1997
IBM researcher: Stuart Parkin
Where the work was done: IBM Almaden Research Center
What we accomplished: GMR [Giant Magnetorestive Heads] allows much denser disks with higher capacity. The heads are what read and write data to disk. (Stuart Parkin, pictured.)
Related links: IBM Research GMR Website
Image credit: Smarter Planet Blog (IBM)
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