فرهنگستان سطنتي علوم سوئد جايزه نوبل فيزيك 2007 را به دو
فيزيكدان فرانسوي و آلماني اهدا كرد كه كشفياتشان امكان مينياتوري
كردن قطعات الكترونيكي را فراهم آورده و به اختراع دستگاه هايي
مانند رايانه هاي همراه و يا iPod انجاميده است.
به گزارش شبكه BBC
، آلبر فر ، فيزيكدان فرانسوي و پتر گرونبرگ، فيزيكدان آلماني
جايزه نوبل 2007 را به صورت مشترك و براي تحقيقاتي دريافت مي كنند
كه سال ها پيش و به صورت مستقل از يكديگر انجام داده و منجر به
دستاوردهاي نويني براي علم فيزيك شدند.
پتر گرونبرگ در سال در پيلسن ( پلزن امروزي در جمهوري چك) متولد
شده است. او در سال 1986 هنگامي كه در بخش فيزيك حالت جامد در
انستيتوي تحقيقاتي يوليخ در غرب آلمان به كار اشتغال داشت، به
كشفياتي در زمينه الكترومغناطيس رسيد كه دو سال بعد منجر شد او
پديده اثر مقاومت بزرگ مغناطيسي GMRرا كشف كند.
آلبر فر، فيزيكدان
فرانسوي در سال 1938 در كاركاسون متولد شده است. او نيز هم زمان با
گرونبرگ در سال 1988 در دانشگاه پاريس - جنوب در اورسي به شيوه
ديگري پديده اثر مقاومت بزرگ مغناطيسي GMRرا كشف كرد.
استفاده از اين
پديده اين امكان را فراهم مي آورد كه داده هايي كه به صورت
مغناطيسي در ديسك هاي سخت CD ذخيره شده اند به سيگنال هايي
الكتريكي تبديل شوند كه براي رايانه ها قابل پردازش و فهم باشند.
به اين ترتيب امكان
توليد قطعات مينياتوري در دستگاه هاي الكترونيكي و رايانه اي فراهم
آمد كه حاصل آن دستگاه هايي مانند رايانه هاي همراه و يا «آي پاد»
iPod است.
پتر گرونبرگ در
زماني برنده جايزه فيزيك نوبل مي شود كه در دوران بازنشستگي خود به
سر مي برد اما آلبر فر همچنان در دانشگاه پاريس - جنوب تدريس مي
كند.
ا
رسال خبر : محمد
ميرزايي
منبع خبر : جام
جم آنلاين
نقل از هوپا
Nobel prize recognizes GMR pioneers
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded jointly to
Albert Fert of the Université Paris-Sud in France and Peter
Grünberg of the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany "for the
discovery of giant magnetoresistance". Their discovery, which
both physicists made independently in 1988, led to a dramatic
rise in the amount of data that can be stored on computer
hard-disk drives. Fert and Grünberg share prize money totalling
10 million Swedish krone (about $1.5m).
Giant magnetoresistance, or GMR, is the sudden change in
electrical resistance that occurs when a material consisting of
alternating ferromagnetic and non-magnetic metal layers is
exposed to a sufficiently high magnetic field. In particular,
the resistance becomes much lower if the magnetization in
neighbouring layers is parallel and much higher if it is
antiparallel. This change in resistance is due to "spin up" and
"spin down" electrons scattering differently in the individual
layers.
Peter Grünberg
GMR has since been used to develop extremely small and sensitive
read heads for magnetic hard-disk drives. These have allowed an
individual data bit to be stored in a much smaller area on a
disk, boosting the storage capacity greatly. The first
commercial read heads based on GMR were launched by IBM in 1997
and GMR is now a standard technology found in nearly all
computers worldwide and is also used in some digital cameras and
MP3 players.
Albert Fert
In Grünberg's original work, he and his team studied an
iron/chromium/iron trilayer system that showed an decrease in
resistance of 1.5%. Fert and colleagues, in contrast, studied an
iron/chromium multilayer system in which the electrical
resistance decreased by nearly 50%.
"These films started out as being very esoteric, but it turned
out that they would have great practical importance," says Tony
Bland, a physicist from the University of Cambridge. "They paved
the way for substantial information densities of commercial disk
drives. It also paved the way for new physics, such as tunneling
magnetoresistance (TMR), spintronics and new sensor technology,
for example biosensors. The caveat is that GMR has already
become old technology and people are now interested in TMR for
future technology."
TMR gives rise to a more pronounced resistance change in small
applied fields than is found in GMR devices.
Albert Fert was born in 1938 in Carcassone, France, and received
a PhD in physics in from Université Paris-Sud, Orsay in France.
He is now also scientific director of CNRS/Thales Unité Mixte de
Physique in Orsay. Peter Grünberg was born in 1939 in Pilsen
(now in Czech Republic) and is a German citizen. He gained his
PhD in physics from the Technische Universität Darmstadt,
Germany.
Grünberg, who holds a patent on GMR, originally submitted his paper slightly
before Fert, although Fert's was
published first. "But whereas Fert was able to describe all the
underlying physics, Grünberg immediately saw the technological
importance," adds Bland.
Source: Physicsworld
'Ubiquitous' technology
Professor Ben Murdin of the
University of Surrey, UK, said giant magnetoresistance, or GMR,
was the science behind a ubiquitous technological device.
"Without it you would not be able to store more than one song on
your iPod!" he explained.
"A computer hard-disk reader that
uses a GMR sensor is equivalent to a jet flying at a speed of
30,000 kmph, at a height of just one metre above the ground, and
yet being able to see and catalogue every single blade of grass
it passes over."
The breakthrough underpins how
data is read from hard disks
GMR involves structures consisting
of very thin layers of different magnetic materials.
For this reason it can also be
considered "one of the first real applications of the promising
field of nanotechnology", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
said in a statement.
"Applications of this phenomenon
have revolutionised techniques for retrieving data from hard
disks," the prize citation said. "The discovery also plays a
major role in various magnetic sensors as well as for the
development of a new generation of electronics."
Source: BBC
Giant magnetoresistance
Giant magnetoresistance (GMR)
is a quantum mechanical effect, a type of magnetoresistance
effect, observed in thin film structures composed of alternating
ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic metal layers.
The effect manifests itself as a
significant decrease in electrical resistance in the presence of
a magnetic field. In the absence of an applied magnetic field
the direction of magnetization of adjacent ferromagnetic layers
is antiparallel due to a weak anti-ferromagnetic coupling
between layers, and it decreases to a lower level of resistance
when the magnetization of the adjacent layers align due to an
applied external field. The spins of the electrons of the
nonmagnetic metal align parallel or antiparallel with an applied
magnetic field in equal numbers, and therefore suffer less
magnetic scattering when the magnetizations of the ferromagnetic
layers are parallel.
The effect is exploited
commercially by manufacturers of hard disk drives. The 2007
Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter
Grünberg for the discovery of GMR.
Founding results of Fert et
al.
Multilayer GMR
Two or more ferromagnetic layers
are separated by a very thin (about 1 nm) non-ferromagnetic
spacer (e.g. Fe/Cr/Fe). At certain thicknesses the RKKY coupling
between adjacent ferromagnetic layers becomes antiferromagnetic,
making it energetically preferable for the magnetizations of
adjacent layers to align in anti-parallel. The electrical
resistance of the device is normally higher in the anti-parallel
case and the difference can reach more than 10% at room
temperature. The interlayer spacing in these devices typically
corresponds to the second antiferromagnetic peak in the AFM-FM
oscillation in the RKKY coupling.
The GMR effect was first observed
in the multilayer configuration, with much early research into
GMR focusing on multilayer stacks of 10 or more layers.
Spin
valve GMR
Two ferromagnetic layers are
separated by a thin (about 3 nm) non-ferromagnetic spacer, but
without RKKY coupling. If the coercive fields of the two
ferromagnetic electrodes are different it is possible to switch
them independently. Therefore, parallel and anti-parallel
alignment can be achieved, and normally the resistance is again
higher in the anti-parallel case. This device is sometimes also
called a spin valve.
Spin-valve GMR
Spin valve GMR is the configuration
that is industrially most useful, and is used in hard drives.
Granular GMR
Granular GMR is an effect that
occurs in solid precipitates of a magnetic material in a
non-magnetic matrix. In practice, granular GMR is only observed
in matrices of copper containing cobalt granules. The reason for
this is that copper and cobalt are immiscible, and so it is
possible to create the solid precipitate by rapidly cooling a
molten mixture of copper and cobalt. Granule sizes vary
depending on the cooling rate and amount of subsequent
annealing. Granular GMR materials have not been able to produce
the high GMR ratios found in the multilayer counterparts.
Source: Wikipedia
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