Slonczewski, John oral history
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.
Item Details
- Date
- 2017-04-12 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102738241
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- John Slonczewski (Interviewee)
Christopher Bajorek (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 18 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/NY/New York
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X8163.2017
- Subject
- IBM, Magnetic Bubble Memory