Abstract

Magneto-optical technique provides us an opportunity to investigate the magnetic and transport properties of materials by optical means, i.e. without using electrodes. Recent advances in THz time domain spectroscopy have made it possible to measure non-diagonal components of the complex conductivity tensor, which are responsible for the conventional dc Hall effect, in the far- infrared spectra] region. In particular, THz Hall measurements in the transmission geometry have been performed in doped semiconductor¹ and high Tc superconductor² films.

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