Archive for January, 2009

Giant Magnetoresistance: A Tale of Pure and Applied Science

Somewhere around the middle of my time as undergraduate, I discovered personal computers that did not require a minimum of three floppy disks just to write a short paper. The vastly superior capability of such machines was courtesy of the internal hard disk drive, which on an IBM 8080 held about 20MB. While hard disk […]

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