On the calculation of the geometric factor in a van der Pauw sheet resistance measurement

Winston K. Chan

On the calculation of the geometric factor in a van der Pauw sheet resistance measurement

2000

Winston K. Chan

A short and fast iterative algorithm for calculating the geometric factor in a van der Pauw sheet resistance measurement is described. Fractional errors below 10−14 are obtained with less than 50 iterations for any value of the resistance ratio RAB,CD/RBC,DA.

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Iterative method
Electrical resistance and conductance
Van der Pauw method
Sheet resistance
Observational error
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Physics
Analytical chemistry
Function approximation
Curve fitting
geometric factor
Optics
Mathematical analysis

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