Convert Ohm Meters to Abohm Centimeters
Ohm Meter (Ω·m) to Abohm Centimeter (abΩ·cm) electric resistivity conversion — enter any value below to get an instant result, or use the table for common values.
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Result
1 Ω·m = 1E+11 abΩ·cm
1 Ohm Meter = 1E+11 Abohm Centimeters
1 Abohm Centimeter = 1E-11 Ohm Meters
1 Ω·m in every supported unit
Conversion chart: Ohm Meter to Abohm Centimeters
Conversion table
| Ohm Meter (Ω·m) | Abohm Centimeter (abΩ·cm) |
|---|---|
| 0.01 Ω·m | 1E+09 abΩ·cm |
| 0.1 Ω·m | 1E+10 abΩ·cm |
| 1 Ω·m | 1E+11 abΩ·cm |
| 2 Ω·m | 2E+11 abΩ·cm |
| 3 Ω·m | 3E+11 abΩ·cm |
| 5 Ω·m | 5E+11 abΩ·cm |
| 10 Ω·m | 1E+12 abΩ·cm |
| 20 Ω·m | 2E+12 abΩ·cm |
| 50 Ω·m | 5E+12 abΩ·cm |
| 100 Ω·m | 1E+13 abΩ·cm |
| 1000 Ω·m | 1E+14 abΩ·cm |
Ohm Meter (Ω·m)
Definition: The SI derived unit of electrical resistivity — numerically, the resistance measured across opposite faces of a one-meter cube of the material, or equivalently the resistance of a one-meter length of material with a one-square-meter cross-section.
History: It emerged as a coherent SI derived unit once resistivity was formalized as a material property distinct from resistance during the development of electrical engineering and materials science in the 19th and early 20th centuries, combining the ohm with the meter to make resistivity comparable across materials of any shape.
Current use: The standard scientific and engineering unit for reporting a material's resistivity — copper is about 1.68×10⁻⁸ Ω·m, aluminum about 2.65×10⁻⁸ Ω·m, and silicon can range from a fraction of an Ω·m to many thousands depending on doping.
Abohm Centimeter (abΩ·cm)
Definition: A CGS electromagnetic (EMU) system resistivity unit combining the abohm — one billionth of an ohm — with the centimeter as the reference length.
History: It followed naturally from the CGS-EMU system's "ab-" prefixed electrical units once resistivity, like resistance itself, needed a CGS-consistent unit of expression in 19th and early 20th-century electromagnetism.
Current use: Rarely used today outside historical physics literature and legacy papers on electromagnetism written in Gaussian CGS units.
Supported Units
| Unit | Symbol | In Ohm Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Ohm Meter | Ω·m | 1 Ω·m |
| Ohm Centimeter | Ω·cm | 0.01 Ω·m |
| Ohm Inch | Ω·in | 0.0254 Ω·m |
| Microhm Centimeter | μΩ·cm | 1E-08 Ω·m |
| Microhm Inch | μΩ·in | 2.54E-08 Ω·m |
| Abohm Centimeter | abΩ·cm | 1E-11 Ω·m |
| Statohm Centimeter | statΩ·cm | 8.98755E+09 Ω·m |
| Circular Mil Ohm/Foot | cmil·Ω/ft | 1.66243E-09 Ω·m |
About These Parameters
- Value
- The electric resistivity value you want to convert, expressed in the "From" unit. Accepts decimals, and can represent anything from a metal's resistivity in microhm-centimeters to a semiconductor's resistivity in ohm-centimeters.
- From Unit
- The unit your input value is currently measured in — a wafer datasheet's ohm-centimeter rating, a wire table's circular-mil-ohm-per-foot figure, or an older CGS unit like abohm-centimeter or statohm-centimeter.
- To Unit
- The unit you want the result converted into. Use the swap button to flip From and To instantly, which is handy when moving a material spec into the units used in your own design calculations.
How Electric Resistivity Conversion Works
The Formula
Every unit here is defined by a fixed multiplier relative to the ohm-meter. To convert a value from one unit to another:
result = value × (factor of "From" unit ÷ factor of "To" unit)
For Ohm Meter → Abohm Centimeter: multiply by 1E+11. For example, 1 Ω·m × 1E+11 = 1E+11 abΩ·cm.
Resistivity vs. Resistance
Resistance (in ohms) tells you how much a specific object opposes current, but that number depends on the object's length and cross-sectional area as much as it depends on what it's made of — double a wire's length and its resistance doubles; double its cross-section and resistance halves. Resistivity strips geometry out of the equation entirely, describing only the material itself: copper is always about 1.68×10⁻⁸ Ω·m regardless of whether it's a hair-thin wire or a thick busbar. That makes resistivity the number engineers actually compare when choosing between materials, while resistance is what they calculate afterward once a specific shape is chosen.
Why So Many Length-Based Variants
Because resistivity is measured "per unit length" in some form, every length unit in common engineering use has spawned its own resistivity unit: centimeters gave the semiconductor industry ohm-centimeter and metallurgy microhm-centimeter, inches gave American manufacturing ohm-inch and microhm-inch, and the circular mil — the standard cross-sectional-area unit for American Wire Gauge tables — combined with the foot to give wire engineers circular-mil-ohm-per- foot, a unit that lets them compute a wire's resistance directly from its AWG size without an extra area conversion. The CGS-era abohm-centimeter and statohm-centimeter round out the list as relics of 19th-century electromagnetic and electrostatic unit systems.
Example
An electric resistivity of 1 Ω·m equals 1E+11 abΩ·cm. For scale, copper's resistivity is about 1.68×10⁻⁸ Ω·m (1.68 μΩ·cm), a typical doped silicon wafer for integrated circuits might run anywhere from about 0.001 to 100 Ω·cm depending on doping level, and a good electrical insulator like glass can exceed 10¹² Ω·m.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many Abohm Centimeters are in 1 Ohm Meter?
1 Ohm Meter (Ω·m) equals exactly 1E+11 Abohm Centimeters (abΩ·cm).
What's the difference between resistivity and resistance?
Resistivity (ohm-meters) is a property of the material alone, unaffected by shape or size. Resistance (ohms) is the property of one specific object, and depends on that material's resistivity plus the object's length and cross-sectional area. See the separate Electric Resistance Converter for that quantity.
Why do semiconductor datasheets use ohm-centimeters instead of ohm-meters?
Silicon wafer resistivity values typically fall in a range — roughly 0.001 to 100 ohm-centimeters — that reads more naturally in centimeters than in the much smaller numbers meters would produce. The convention stuck from the CGS era and remains the semiconductor industry standard today, even though the rest of SI has moved to meters.
What is a circular mil, and why does wire resistivity use it?
A circular mil is the area of a circle exactly one mil (0.001 inch) in diameter — the standard cross-sectional-area unit used throughout the American Wire Gauge (AWG) system. Expressing wire resistivity in ohms per circular mil per foot lets engineers compute a wire's resistance straight from its AWG size and length, without a separate step to convert circular mils into square inches or square millimeters first.
Are abohm-centimeter and statohm-centimeter still used?
Almost never in modern engineering. They're the resistivity units of the 19th-century CGS electromagnetic (EMU) and electrostatic (ESU) systems respectively, and survive mainly in historical physics literature and theoretical derivations written in Gaussian units, well before the SI's ohm-meter became the near-universal standard.