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We propose a mesoscopic kinetic-inductance radiation detector based on a long superconductor--normal metal--superconductor Josephson junction. The operation of this proximity Josephson sensor (PJS) relies on large kinetic inductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-12 F. Giazotto , T. T. Heikkila , G. Pepe. P. Helisto , A. Luukanen , J. P. Pekola

A Josephson junction (JJ) has been under intensive study ever since 1960's. Yet even in the present era of building quantum information processing devices based on many JJs, open questions regarding a single junction remain unsolved, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Bayan Karimi , Gorm Ole Steffensen , Andrew P. Higginbotham , Charles M. Marcus , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Jukka P. Pekola

This study presents a novel thermocouple instrument designed for precise temperature monitoring within biological tissues and cells, addressing a significant gap in biological research. Constructed on a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) substrate,…

The measurement of temperature with nanoscale spatial resolution is an emerging new technology and it has important impact in various fields. An ideal nanothermometer should not only be accurate, but also applicable over a wide temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Liselotte Jauffred

Measuring local temperature with a spatial resolution on the order of a few nanometers has a wide range of applications from semiconductor industry over material to life sciences. When combined with precision temperature measurement it…

Studying nanoscale dynamics is essential for understanding quantum materials and advancing quantum chip manufacturing. Still, it remains a major challenge to measure non-equilibrium properties such as current and dissipation, and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Matthijs Rog , Tycho J. Blom , Daan B. Boltje , Jimi D. de Haan , Remko Fermin , Jiasen Niu , Yasmin C. Doedes , Milan P. Allan , Kaveh Lahabi

A method is proposed for determining the temperature of hot electrons in a metallic nanoparticle embedded in a dielectric matrix under ultrashort laser pulses irradiation. The amplitude and power of the longitudinal spherical acoustic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 N. I. Grigorchuk

A superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junction is a coherent electron system where the thermodynamic entropy depends on temperature and phase difference across the weak-link. Here, exploiting the phase-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Francesco Vischi , Matteo Carrega , Pauli Virtanen , Elia Strambini , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Anti-Stokes photoluminescence of metal nanoparticles, in which emitted photons have a higher energy than the incident photons, is an indicator of the temperature prevalent within a nanoparticle. Previous work has shown how to extract the…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-21 Thomas Jollans , Martín Caldarola , Yonatan Sivan , Michel Orrit

We report low-temperature transport measurements performed on a planar Nb-InGaAs-Nb proximity Josephson junction hosting a gate-defined lateral quantum dot in the weak-link. We first study quasiparticle and Josephson transport through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Fabio Deon , Vittorio Pellegrini , Francesco Giazotto , Giorgio Biasiol , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram

Current thermometry techniques lack the spatial resolution required to see the temperature gradients in typical, highly-scaled modern transistors. As a step toward addressing this problem, we have measured the temperature dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Matthew Mecklenburg , Brian Zutter , B. C. Regan

We report a room-temperature diode-pumped solid-state laser by water immersion cooling, which delivers a pulse energy of 11 J at the repetition rate of 100 Hz and the pulse duration of 7 ns, while the beam quality factor is 2.6 times the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-08 Xinxing Lei , Suyang Wang , Zichao Wang , Lei Huang , Qiang Liu , Xing Fu

Thermal voltage noise measurements are performed in order to determine the electron temperature in nanopatterned channels of a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure at bath temperatures of 4.2 and 1.4 K. Two narrow two-dimensional (2D) heating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Sven S. Buchholz , Elmar Sternemann , Olivio Chiatti , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck , Saskia F. Fischer

Superconducting diodes, characterized by nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, offer transformative opportunities for ultra-low-power circuits. However, achieving reliable operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen remains a major…

Current advances in ultrafast electron microscopy make it possible to combine optical pumping of a nanostructure and electron beam probing with sub{\aa}ngstrom and femtosecond spatiotemporal resolution. We present a theory predicting that…

Nanoscale optical thermometry is a promising non-contact route for measuring local temperature with both high sensitivity and spatial resolution. In this work, we present a deterministic optical thermometry technique based on quantum…

Using the strong temperature dependent resistance of a normal metal wire in proximity to a superconductor, we have been able to measure the local temperature of electrons heated by flowing a dc current in a metallic wire to within a few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Aumentado , J. Eom , V. Chandrasekhar , P. M. Baldo , L. E. Rehn

Two superconductors coupled by a weak link support an equilibrium Josephson electrical current which depends on the phase difference $\varphi$ between the superconducting condensates [1]. Yet, when a temperature gradient is imposed across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Antonio Fornieri , Giuliano Timossi , Pauli Virtanen , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

Quantum dots attached to BCS superconducting leads exhibit a $0-\pi$ impurity quantum phase transition, which can be experimentally controlled either by the gate voltage or by the superconducting phase difference. For the pertinent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Alžběta Kadlecová , Martin Žonda , Vladislav Pokorný , Tomáš Novotný

In the emergent field of quantum technology, the ability to manage heat at the nanoscale and in cryogenic conditions is crucial for enhancing device performance in terms of noise, coherence, and sensitivity. Here, we demonstrate the active…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Federico Paolucci , Federica Bianco , Francesco Giazotto , Stefano Roddaro