Author Archives: Hari Srinivas
Nuclear tests without nukes
An interesting pieces of an article about fusion power that is about to be demonstrated at National ignition facility in the year 2010. For full article go here ……Next year, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California … Continue reading
A poetry on metals
An English poem from the 19th century tells us Gold is for the mistress Silver for the maid Copper for the craftsman Cunning at his trade Good said the baron Sitting in his hall But iron, cold iron Is master … Continue reading
Spintronics – I : The discovery of Giant MagnetoResistance (GMR) and the birth of spintronics
Let me start with this quote, “The theory of metallic resistance abounds in mysteries,” rightly said by Meaden (1971). One of these mysteries is about how and why electrical resistance changes when a magnetic field acts on ferromagnetic materials. And … Continue reading
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Tagged giant magnetoresistance, IBM, multi-layers, Nobel Prize, Spintronics
Materials Quotes 010
Wolfgang Pauli once claimed ” God created the volume but the surface was invented by the devil”. Fortunately or unfortunately these surfaces are what we engineer today to strengthen or weaken the materials suiting our needs!!!
Hello everybody
I am Hari Srinvas Goripati. It’s a great pleasure to be a contributor on this blog. I am PhD student in Materials science, university of Tsukuba, Japan. But, I do all my thesis work at National Institute for Materials Science … Continue reading
