New chip tech on the horizon.

Hall effect meets photelectric effect and more candy comes out of the pinata.

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Carrier-resolved photo-Hall effect.

Researchers discover a method of extracting previously unavailable information from superconductors.
The study builds on a 19th-century discovery by physicist Edward Hall.
The research promises to lead to a new generation of semiconductor materials and devices.

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The method, dubbed Carrier-Resolved Photo Hall (CRPH), measurement, can simultaneously extract information about the majority and minority carriers like density and mobility, carrier lifetimes and lengths of diffusion. In fact, compared to the three parameters of measurement traditionally derived by engaging the Hall effect, the novel technique can get up to seven parameters of information.