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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1978
Filed:
May. 31, 1977
Johannes H Janssen, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A semiconductor device having a Hall element in which, in order to reduce the offset, the Hall element consists of an even number of sub-Hall elements provided in one semiconductor body and the anode and cathode contacts of which are connected together, which sub-Hall elements each have a Hall contact, and in which one half of the Hall contacts is of one polarity and the other half is of the opposite polarity. The sub-Hall elements are divided into groups of each two sub-Hall elements with mutually parallel main current directions, and Hall contacts of the same polarity are connected together. The sub-Hall elements advantageously have a common Hall body in the form of a square of another regular polygon, in which the contacts are placed along the edge of the Hall body.