Novel Specular Giant Magnetoresistive Material

Information

• NSF Award
• 9461099

Owner

• Nonvolatile Electronics, Incorporated

• Award Id

  9461099

• Award Effective Date

  1/1/1995 - 30 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  10/31/1995 - 29 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 64,949.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will study a novel specular low magnetic field Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) composite thin film material which uses a GMR sandwich film and two specular reflecting layers at the outer boundaries. Currently, in layered GMR materials, high GMR ratio is accompanied by a high required driving field. The proposed new GMR material will have the relatively large resistance change of a multilayer GMR film and yet will require low magnetic driving fields to effect the change, as in GMR spin valve films. Candidate electron specular reflecting materials will be explored to test their compatibility with sputtered GMR sandwich films. Annealing techniques for achieving electron specular reflecting outer boundaries will be explored. In Phase I, a prototype material will demonstrate the feasibility of the concept. It will show at least a 20% change in resistance for an applied field of 10 Oe or less

• Program Officer

  Darryl G. Gorman

• Min Amd Letter Date

  1/6/1995 - 30 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  1/6/1995 - 30 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  Nonvolatile Electronics Inc

• City

  Eden Prairie

• State

  MN

• Country

  United States

• Address

  11409 Valley View Road

• Postal Code

  553443617

• Phone Number

  6129961608

• First Name

  James

• Last Name

  Daughton

• Email Address

  daughton@nve.com

• Start Date

  1/6/1995 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Materials NEC

• Code

  18