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Hall effect breaks new ground

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Direct determination of carrier concentration and doping in a single nanowire is achieved by placing four electrical contacts along its sidewall.

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Figure 1: Operating principle of the Hall effect.

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  1. Ray LaPierre is at the Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Ontario L8S 4L7, Canada,

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LaPierre, R. Hall effect breaks new ground. Nature Nanotech 7, 695–696 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.191

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