Nobel laureate looks to the future of spintronics

What do you do after winning the Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering a technology that has touched billions of lives? You could take it easy, or if you are Albert Fert, you would try to come up with a completely new spin on that technology which could find its ways into billions of mobile phones and other communications devices.

Fert shared the 2007 prize for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance if you store lots of multimedia on your computer, he is one person you should thank. In this interview, he tells what he is up to in his lab at the University of Paris and also how his prize-winning research was picked up and commercialized by IBM into highly sensitive read heads for hard drives.

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[nitendo9]

@conseler you mean SMALLER and better hard drives

[conseler]

This is perhaps the MOST important discovery since the discovery of the INTEL chip in 1965....... we will look back on this very soon... bigger and better hard drives will drive a revolution!!!

[grencyayala]

Any subs???

[dragostanasie]

who is this complete IDIOT reading the questions from a paper ?!