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We present radio-frequency thermometry based on a tunnel junction between a superconductor and proximitized normal metal. It allows operation in a wide range of biasing conditions. We demonstrate that the standard finite-bias quasiparticle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Bayan Karimi , Jukka P. Pekola

Negative differential conductance (NDC) is a non-linear transport phenomenon ubiquitous in molecular nanojunctions. Its physical origin can be the most diverse. In rotationally symmetric molecules with orbitally degenerate many-body states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Andrea Donarini , Sandra Sobczyk , Benjamin Siegert , Milena Grifoni

GaN/AlN interfaces are essential in advanced high-power and high-frequency electronic devices, where effective thermal management is crucial for optimal performance and reliability. This work investigates the thermal boundary conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Hao Zhou , Khalid Zobaid Adnan , Wyatt Allen Jones , Tianli Feng

Recent experimental investigations have demonstrated that doping a semiconductor is a route to increase the thermal boundary conductance at metal/semiconductor interfaces. In this work, the influence of the electrical properties on heat…

Periodic hole array phononic crystals (PnC) can strongly modify the phonon dispersion relations, and have been shown to influence thermal conductance coherently, especially at low temperatures where scattering is suppressed. One very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Yaolan Tian , Tuomas A. Puurtinen , Zhuoran Geng , Ilari J. Maasilta

We propose a new type of a transition edge sensor based on an Al/AlOx/Ti/AlOx/Al superconductor - insulator - superconductor - insulator - superconductor (SIS'IS) structure. It exhibits sharp dependence of zero bias resistance on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Timothé Faivre , Dmitry Golubev , Jukka P. Pekola

We describe the statistics of temperature fluctuations in a SINIS structure, where a normal metal island (N) is coupled by tunnel junctions (I) to two superconducting leads (S). We specify conditions under which this structure exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä , Yuli V. Nazarov

Micrometer-sized Al/AlO$_{x}$/Y tunnel junctions were fabricated by the electron-beam lithography technique. The thin ($\approx$ 1.5--2 nm thickness) insulating AlO$_{x}$ layer was grown on top of the Al base electrode by O$_{2}$ glow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Yu-Ren Lai , Kai-Fu Yu , Yong-Han Lin , Jong-Ching Wu , Juhn-Jong Lin

Optical reflectivity study has been made on the hexagonal (NiAs-type) Ni_{1-d}S in order to probe its electronic properties, in particular those associated with the metal-nonmetal transition in this compound. Samples with d=0.005 and 0.02…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Okamura , J. Naitoh , N. Nanba , M. Matoba , M. Nishioka , S. Anzai

When a charge current is applied to a junction comprising two different conductors, its temperature increases or decreases depending on the direction of the charge current. This phenomenon is called the Peltier effect, which is used in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Shunsuke Daimon , Ryo Iguchi , Tomosato Hioki , Eiji Saitoh , Ken-ichi Uchida

N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes are realized on single-crystal N-polar GaN bulk substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy growth. The room-temperature current-voltage characteristics reveal a negative differential…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-08 YongJin Cho , Jimy Encomendero , Shao-Ting Ho , Huili Grace Xing , Debdeep Jena

Efficient heat dissipation to the substrate is crucial for optimal device performance in nanoelectronics. We develop a theory of electronic thermal boundary conductance (TBC) mediated by remote phonon scattering for the single-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Zhun-Yong Ong , Gang Zhang , Linyou Cao , Yong-Wei Zhang

We have formed superconducting contacts in which Cooper pairs incident from a thick In layer must move through a thin Nb layer to reach a semiconductor, either InAs or low temperature grown (LTG) GaAs. The effect of pair tunneling through…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Rizk , A. Yulius , W. I. Yoo , P. F. Bagwell , D. McInturff , P. Chin , J. M. Woodall , T. M. Pekarek , T. N. Jackson

We propose a mesoscopic setup which exhibits strong and manifestly non-Gaussian fluctuations of energy and temperature when suitably driven out of equilibrium. The setup consists of a normal metal island (N) coupled by tunnel junctions (I)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä , Yuli V. Nazarov

We investigate the waiting time distributions (WTDs) of superconducting hybrid junctions, considering both conventional and topologically nontrivial superconductors hosting Majorana bound states at their edges. To this end, we employ a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Shuo Mi , Pablo Burset , Christian Flindt

In this paper, a comprehensive study of the effects of Ni-doping on structural, electrical, thermal and magnetic properties of the NbB2 is presented. Low amounts (\leq 10 %) of Ni substitution on Nb sites cause structural distortions and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-18 S. T. Renosto , R. Lang , E. Diez , L. E. Corrêa , M. S. da Luz , Z. Fisk , A. J. S. Machado

Metallic atomic junctions pose the ultimate limit to the scaling of electrical contacts. They serve as model systems to probe electrical and thermal transport down to the atomic level as well as quantum effects occurring in one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Nico Mosso , Ute Drechsler , Fabian Menges , Peter Nirmalraj , Siegfried Karg , Heike Riel , Bernd Gotsmann

Thermal management has become a promising field in recent years due to the limitation of energy resources and the global warming. An important topic in improving the efficiency of thermal energy utilization is how to control the flows of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fangqi Chen , Xiaojie Liu , Yanpei Tian , Duanyang Wang , Yi Zheng

Titanium nitride is a material of interest for many superconducting devices such as nanowire microwave resonators and photon detectors. Thus, controlling the growth of TiN thin films with desirable properties is of high importance. In…

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in hole-doped SmNiO$_2$, exhibiting the record-high transition temperature $T_c$ among infinite-layer (IL) nickelates, has opened a new avenue for exploring design principles of…