Single grain heating due to inelastic cotunneling
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2010-01-26 v2
Abstract
We study heating effects of a single metallic quantum dot weakly coupled to two leads. The dominant mechanism for heating at low temperatures is due to inelastic electron cotunneling processes. We calculate the grain temperature profile as a function of grain parameters, bias voltage, and time and show that for nanoscale size grains the heating effects are pronounced and easily measurable in experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.0011,
title = {Single grain heating due to inelastic cotunneling},
author = {Andreas Glatz and I. S. Beloborodov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0011},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, revtex4, extended and corrected version