January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
13h 33m
English
A hall effect sensor consists of a strip of metal that a current runs across. A stream of charged particles passing through a magnetic field will cause the beam to deflect from a straight line. If a conductor is placed in the magnetic field perpendicular to the electron flow, it will gather charge carriers and produce a voltage differential between the positive side of the metal strip and the negative side. This will produce a voltage differential that can be measured. The differential is called the Hall voltage, which is responsible for the phenomenon known as the Hall effect. This is illustrated in the following image. If a current is applied to a metal strip (as shown in the diagram) within a magnetic ...
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