Evidence that voltage rather than resistance is quantized in breakdown of the quantum hall effect

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 175-180

  Cage, M E ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Physics Laboratory

Author keywords

Breakdown; Quantized dissipation; Quantized resistance states; Quantized voltage states; Quantum Hall effect; Quasi elastic inter Landau level scattering; Two dimensional electron gas

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007129461     PISSN: 1044677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6028/jres.101.019     Document Type: Article

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