SUTD researchers’ discovery of the intrinsic nonlinear planar Hall effect proposes a new mechanism to characterise novel materials and their nonlinear complex behaviours that could translate to useful applications in electronics. (IMAGE)

Singapore University of Technology and Design

SUTD researchers’ discovery of the intrinsic nonlinear planar Hall effect proposes a new mechanism to characterise novel materials and their nonlinear complex behaviours that could translate to useful applications in electronics.

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(a) Schematic of the measurement setup for NPHE. (b),(c) For a material with point group Cnv or Dn (n>2), the intrinsic NPHE response exhibits a simple cosine or sine dependence on the angle (φ−θ) between E and B fields, when B field is rotated in the plane.

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