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Science 17 June 1983:
Vol. 220. no. 4603, pp. 1241 - 1246
DOI: 10.1126/science.220.4603.1241
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The Quantized Hall Effect

H. L. Stormer 1 and D. C. Tsui 2

1 Member of the technical staff and head of the Department of Electronic and Optical Properties of Solids at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
2 Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Quantization of the Hall effect is one of the most surprising discoveries in recent experimental solid-state research. At low temperatures and high magnetic fields the ratio of the Hall voltage to the electric current in a two-dimensional system is quantized in units of h/e2, where h is Planck's constant and e is the electronic charge. Concomitantly, the electrical resistance of the specimen drops to values far below the resistances of the best normal metals.


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