Title
Slonczewski, John oral history
Catalog Number
102738242
Type
Moving image
Description
This oral history records Dr. Slonczewski’s contributions that resulted in his invention of the magnetic tunnel junction as well as understanding of spin torque transfer phenomena. The invention of the magnetic tunnel junction is especially noteworthy because it enabled the commercialization of the third generation of magnetoresistive heads used to read data in all modern hard disk drives. His work pertaining to of spin torque transfer phenomena is of great interest to current developers of emerging memory technologies, especially MRAM, in which magnetic tunnel junctions are used to write data via spin torque transfer and read data via the junctions’ magnetoresistance.
Date
2017-04-12
Participants
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Bajorek, Christopher, Interviewer
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Slonczewski, John, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
New York City, NY
Format
MOV
Category
Oral history
Subject
Tunnelign Magnetoresistive Heads; Magnetic field detector; spin torque transfer; MRAM; magnetic bubble memory; bubble lattice memory; magnetic film memory; DRAM (dynamic random-access memory); IBM
Credit
Computer History Museum
