magnetoresistance

[mag-nee-toh-ri-zis-tuhns]

noun

1. a change in the electrical resistance of a material upon exposure to a magnetic field.

Other Word Forms

• magnetoresistive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of magnetoresistance¹

First recorded in 1925–30; magneto- + resistance

Example Sentences

Despite this complexity, surprisingly, the magnetoresistance was found to be extremely simple.

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Buoyed by this success, Prof Hussey resurrected Xu and Wakeham's magnetoresistance data and showed them to Dr Chudzinski.

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The debut of antiferromagnets in technology was made possible through the 1988 discovery of the giant magnetoresistance effect2,3, which resulted in the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Antiferromagnets proved to be essential in sensors that use the giant magnetoresistance effect.

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For me, it was also the revelation of a nanostructure in which I could test some of my own ideas about magnetoresistance.

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