The Institute of Metal Physics has developed a technology for synthesis of metallic epitaxial nanostructures of alternating nano-thickness ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic layers, which exhibit a giant magnetoresistive effect (GMR). A controlled noncollinear magnetic ordering of adjacent ferromagnetic layers ensures a high GMR and a linear magnetoresistance in a wide range of magnetic fields.

Jointly with NPO Avtomatika (Ekaterinburg), the Institute of Metal Physics has developed and manufactured wide-range magnetic sensors, which exhibit a GMR up to 20% at room temperature and have a linear magnetoresistance in fields of up to 40 kOe; and highly sensitive magnetoresistive transducers, which improve the measurement accuracy of nondestructive testing instruments, tachometers, magnetometers, and electricity measuring devices.