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High-Bandwidth, Variable-Resistance Differential Noise Thermometry

Instrumentation and Detectors 2021-04-15 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We develop Johnson noise thermometry applicable to mesoscopic devices with variable source impedance with high bandwidth for fast data acquisition. By implementing differential noise measurement and two-stage impedance matching, we demonstrate noise measurement in the frequency range 120-250 MHz with a wide sample resistance range 30 {\Omega}-100 k{\Omega} tuned by gate voltages and temperature. We employ high-frequency, single-ended low noise amplifiers maintained at a constant cryogenic temperature in order to maintain the desired low noise temperature. We achieve thermometer calibration with temperature precision up to 650 mK on a 10 K background with 30 s of averaging. Using this differential noise thermometry technique, we measure thermal conductivity on a bilayer graphene sample spanning the metallic and semiconducting regimes in a wide resistance range, and we compare it to the electrical conductivity.

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@article{arxiv.2008.12739,
  title  = {High-Bandwidth, Variable-Resistance Differential Noise Thermometry},
  author = {Artem Vladimirovich Talanov and Jonah Waissman and Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe and Philip Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12739},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments

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