Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera is an American physicist of Indian origin and is senior research scientist at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory.
In 1994, Miyazaki's team developed a room temperature MTJ with high TMR (18.0%) based on an Fe–Al2O3–Fe stack.
[1] Besides its great fundamental interest, room temperature magnetoresistive tunnelling is the basis for practical devices including MRAM and read heads used in hard disks.
Moodera was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000 "for pioneering and sustained contributions to the understanding of spin-polarized transport in solids.
He was briefly at West Virginia University before joining the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory staff at MIT in 1981.