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8 unusual facts about Hall effect


Charge-carrier density

The density of charge carriers can be determined in many cases using the Hall effect, the voltage of which depends inversely on the density.

Drude model

This simple classical Drude model provides a very good explanation of DC and AC conductivity in metals, the Hall effect, and thermal conductivity (due to electrons) in metals near room temperature.

Edwin Hall

Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 – November 20, 1938) was an American physicist who discovered the "Hall effect".

Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters

The game is played from an isometric perspective, and players control their avatars using Hall effect joysticks on the arcade version.

Hall effect

The sample inhomogeneity might result in spurious sign of the Hall effect, even in ideal van der Pauw configuration of electrodes.

Robert Karplus

Karplus continued his work at the highest level in theoretical physics for more than 10 years, at Harvard from 1950 to 1954 and then at the University of California, Berkeley, publishing 50 research papers, mostly in QED but also in other areas of physics, including the Hall effect, Van Allen radiation, and cosmic rays.

Spin Hall effect

Hall effect, where charges of opposite sign appear on the opposing lateral surfaces to compensate for the

The SHE belongs to the same family as the anomalous Hall effect, known for a long time in ferromagnets, which also originates from spin-orbit interaction.



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