The Hall Effect and Its Applications

✍ Scribed by Colin M. Hurd (auth.), C. L. Chien, C. R. Westgate (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 550
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 1879, while a graduate student under Henry Rowland at the Physics Department of The Johns Hopkins University, Edwin Herbert Hall discovered what is now universally known as the Hall effect. A symposium was held at The Johns Hopkins University on November 13, 1979 to commemorate the lOOth anniversary of the discovery. Over 170 participants attended the symposium which included eleven in­ vited lectures and three speeches during the luncheon. During the past one hundred years, we have witnessed ever ex­ panding activities in the field of the Hall effect. The Hall effect is now an indispensable tool in the studies of many branches of condensed matter physics, especially in metals, semiconductors, and magnetic solids. Various components (over 200 million!) that utilize the Hall effect have been successfully incorporated into such devices as keyboards, automobile ignitions, gaussmeters, and satellites. This volume attempts to capture the important aspects of the Hall effect and its applications. It includes the papers presented at the symposium and eleven other invited papers. Detailed coverage of the Hall effect in amorphous and crystalline metals and alloys, in magnetic materials, in liquid metals, and in semiconductors is provided. Applications of the Hall effect in space technology and in studies of the aurora enrich the discussions of the Hall effect's utility in sensors and switches. The design and packaging of Hall elements in integrated circuit forms are illustrated.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
“Pressing Electricity”: A Hundred Years of Hall Effect in Crystalline Metals and Alloys....Pages 1-54
The Hall Effect of Ferromagnets....Pages 55-76
Hall Effect from Skew Scattering by Magnetic Impurities....Pages 77-98
Hall Effect in Single Crystals of Iron....Pages 99-136
Hall Effect in Amorphous Metals....Pages 137-200
The Hall Effect in Liquid Metals....Pages 201-213
Hall Effect in Liquid Metals: Experimental Results....Pages 215-252
Experimental Hall Effect Data for a Small-Polaron Semiconductor....Pages 253-280
The Hall Effect in Hopping Conduction....Pages 281-298
Hall Effect and the Beauty and Challenges of Science....Pages 299-338
The Hall Effect in Heavily Doped Semiconductors....Pages 339-354
Electron Correlation and Activated Hall Mobility....Pages 355-373
Some General Input-output Rules Governing Hall Coefficient Behavior....Pages 375-397
Hall Currents in the Aurora....Pages 399-415
Hall Effect Formulae and Units....Pages 417-419
The Hall Effect in Silicon Circuits....Pages 421-445
Packaging Hall Effect Devices....Pages 447-462
Hall Effect Magnetometers for High Magnetic Fields and Temperatures between 1.5°K and 300°K....Pages 463-479
Applications of Hall Effect Devices in Space Technology....Pages 481-508
E. H. Hall and Physics at Hopkins: The Background to Discovery....Pages 509-515
The Hall Effect in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Physics....Pages 517-521
The Discovery of the Hall Effect: Edwin Hall’s Hitherto Unpublished Account....Pages 523-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-550

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics; Spectroscopy and Microscopy