Researchers have discovered a material (WTe2) with an extremely large magnetoresistance, which is the change in resistance as a material is exposed to stronger magnetic fields. The researchers exposed ...

With the need for hardware to process large amounts of digital information ever growing, researchers are working hard to improve magnetoresistive devices. The magnetoresistance ratio indicates the ...

(Nanowerk News) While electrons are well known to carry both charge and spin, only the electric charge portion is utilized as an information carrier in modern electronic devices. However, the limits ...

A research team has achieved multilevel spin-based modulation of magnetoresistance in high-performance organic spin valve (OSV) devices. The study was published in Advanced Materials. Researchers at ...

Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) is a quantum mechanical effect observed in thin film structures composed of alternating ferromagnetic and non-magnetic layers. It is characterized by a significant change ...

A team of scientists from Tohoku University has presented a new material with huge magnetoresistance, opening the path for developments in non-volatile magnetoresistive memory (MRAM). (a) A schematic ...

Transport coefficients of correlated electron systems are often useful for mapping hidden phases with distinct symmetries. Researchers report a transport signature of spontaneous symmetry breaking in ...

Wonder material: ball-and-stick illustration of a single sheet of graphene. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/billdayone) After amazing us with its incredible strength ...

More than 150 years ago, William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, discovered the magnetoresistive effect. Today, this finding enables sensors to measure the rotational speed of a car wheel, and is also ...