Peter A. Grünberg
Physicist
1939-2018
Peter Andreas Grünberg was a German physicist who discovered the giant magnetoresistance (GMR).
GMR is the significant change of electrical resistance in atomically-thin multilayers of alternating ferromagnetic and non-magnetic conductive layers. This effect, observed for the first time in 1988, depends on the relative orientation of adjacent ferromagnetic layers magnetization and can be controlled by an external magnetic field. The practical significance of the discovery was recognized by the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded jointly to Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert, who discovered GMR simultaneously.
Thanks to this discovery, ByAxon project is a step closer to building a non-contact prototype to bypass spinal cord injuries.
Physicist
1939-2018
Peter Andreas Grünberg was a German physicist who discovered the giant magnetoresistance (GMR).
GMR is the significant change of electrical resistance in atomically-thin multilayers of alternating ferromagnetic and non-magnetic conductive layers. This effect, observed for the first time in 1988, depends on the relative orientation of adjacent ferromagnetic layers magnetization and can be controlled by an external magnetic field. The practical significance of the discovery was recognized by the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded jointly to Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert, who discovered GMR simultaneously.
Thanks to this discovery, ByAxon project is a step closer to building a non-contact prototype to bypass spinal cord injuries.
