For more than a century, Tohoku University has been a leading research institution in the field of magnetic materials and gave birth to various breakthroughs such as the hard disk drive. It is thus in a natural way that, since the discovery of giant magneto resistance in 1988, Tohoku University has been engaged in Spintronics research, science dealing with the spin of charged particles at the root of phenomena such as ferromagnetism.

Spintronics has grown into a discipline of its own and the School of Engineering has been at the cutting edge of research in this field. We invite the reader to discover more about this topic at the website of the Tohoku University Research News of Engineering (Tune) at http://tune.eng.tohoku.ac.jp