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The setup combines a Van der Pauw configuration, permanent neodymium magnets, a characterized white LED source, and a source\u2013measure unit to extract an apparent Hall-derived differential indicator\u2014not a calibrated majority-carrier density\u2014under dark and illuminated steady-state conditions. At 1.81mWcm\u22122, the lightly doped wafer (ND\u22481014cm\u22123) shows a resolved response (\u0394\u03c3n,H=29.61\u00b13.406mScm\u22121), reported as mean \u00b1 sample standard deviation from 15 dark\/light cycles. The heavily doped wafer (ND\u22481017cm\u22123) gives a nominal below-threshold response (\u0394\u03c3n,H=1.167\u00b10.140mScm\u22121) from the same cycling protocol; it should be interpreted only as an unresolved trend-level indication because it lies below the instrumental detection threshold. The contrast is qualitatively consistent with the expected doping dependence, but no quantitative performance ratio is claimed for the heavily doped wafer. A Macdonald\u2013Cuevas comparison is used only as a qualitative physical-consistency benchmark. No independent QSSPC, SSPC, \u03bc-PCD, or carrier-resolved photo-Hall measurement was available for the same wafers; therefore, the system serves as a complementary low-cost screening tool for comparative trend analysis, not a replacement for calibrated photoconductance or photo-Hall techniques, and it does not constitute a new measurement principle.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma19143016","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,14]],"date-time":"2026-07-14T00:55:21Z","timestamp":1783990521000},"page":"3016","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Low-Complexity Hall-Based Measurement System Implementing a Dark\/Illuminated Differential Estimator for Majority-Carrier Photoconductive Screening in Doped n-Type Silicon"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6006-0361","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bernardo","family":"Reyes-Dur\u00e1n","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tecnol\u00f3gico Nacional de M\u00e9xico\/Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de La Laguna, Torre\u00f3n 27000, Coahuila, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2263-0316","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carlos","family":"\u00c1lvarez-Mac\u00edas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tecnol\u00f3gico Nacional de M\u00e9xico\/Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de La Laguna, Torre\u00f3n 27000, Coahuila, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2181-5861","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lizbeth","family":"Salgado-Conrado","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda Mec\u00e1nica y El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Coahuila, Carretera Torre\u00f3n-Matamoros, km 7.5, Torre\u00f3n 27276, Coahuila, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1998-0056","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alma","family":"Esmeralda-G\u00f3mez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda Mec\u00e1nica y El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Coahuila, Carretera Torre\u00f3n-Matamoros, km 7.5, Torre\u00f3n 27276, Coahuila, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8171-1351","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ra\u00fal","family":"Tadeo-Rosas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda Mec\u00e1nica y El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Coahuila, Carretera Torre\u00f3n-Matamoros, km 7.5, Torre\u00f3n 27276, Coahuila, Mexico"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Schroder, D.K. 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