{"71707":{"#nid":"71707","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Nobel Laureate Albert Fert","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlbert Fert, who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, delivers his talk \u0022Spintronics: Electrons, Spins Computers and Telephones.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpintronics exploits the influence of the electron spin orientation on electronic transport. It is mainly known for the \u201cgiant magnetoresistance\u201d (GMR) and the large increase of the hard disc capacity obtained with read heads based on the GMR, but it has also revealed many other interesting effects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday spintronics is developing along many novel directions with promising prospects as well for short term applications as for the \u201cbeyond CMOS\u201d perspective. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter an introduction on the fundamentals of spintronics, Fert will review some of the most interesting emerging directions of today: spin transfer and its applications to STT-RAMs or to microwave generation, spintronics with semiconductors, graphene and carbon nanotubes, Spin Hall Effects, neuromorphic devices etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWinner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007, Fert speaks about his work in spintronics.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007, Fert speaks about his work in spintronics."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2011-10-21 16:47:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:24","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-10-31T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-10-31T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-10-31T16:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-10-31 19:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-10-31 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-10-31 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"429","name":"graphene"},{"id":"9115","name":"MRSEC"},{"id":"2252","name":"Nobel"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESamantha King\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-5203\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:samantha.king@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esamantha.king@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}