Influence of the voltage contacts on the four-terminal quantized Hall resistance in the nonlinear regime

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 276-280

  Jeckelmann, Beat ^a   Jeanneret, Blaise ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Office of Metrology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALL EFFECT; OHMIC CONTACTS; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTIZED HALL RESISTANCE (QHR);

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031120885     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571831     Document Type: Article

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