For isotropic electrons and electron holes with positive mobilities, adding their weak-field electrical conductivity tensors and imposing zero transverse total current givesThe Hall coefficient changes sign at . Carrier abundance alone does not fix the sign; mobilities enter quadratically. The formula assumes , , independent semiclassical carriers, and no anomalous Hall contribution.
For fully ionized uncompensated acceptors, and . If , the weak-field two-carrier Hall coefficient is positive when , giving the displayed sign threshold. A nearly constant Hall coefficient requires a stronger plateau condition. When , its relative correction to is approximately . Thus specifying only that the coefficient is approximately constant does not define an exact minimum dopant concentration without a tolerance and mobility assumptions.
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