Hall effect

The Hall effect refers to the potential difference (Hall voltage) on opposite sides of a thin sheet of conducting or semiconducting material in the form of a 'Hall bar' or a van der Pauw element through which an electric current is flowing, created by a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the Hall element. The ratio of the voltage created to the amount of current is known as the Hall resistance, and is a characteristic of the material in the element. Dr. Edwin Hall discovered this effect in 1879.

See also

• Capacitor
• Hall effect thruster
• Transducer

List of physics topics

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• Condensed matter physics
• Elementary charge
• Frank Wilczek
• Nobel Prize in Physics
• Quantum Hall effect
• Van der Pauw method

Chemicals

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• Antimony
• Bismuth