Nobel lecture: From spin waves to giant magnetoresistance and beyond: The 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1531-1540

  Grünberg, Peter A ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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EID: 58049121804     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.80.1531     Document Type: Article

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