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 unive

Without sensors most electronic applications would not exist—sensors perform a vital function, namely providing an interface to the real world. Hall effect se

This is the second edition of a very popular 1991 book describing the physics and technology of semiconductor electronic devices exploiting the Hall effect. The

The transport of electric charge through most materials is well described in terms of their electronic band structure. The present book deals with two cases whe