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The cooling of two-dimensional electrons in silicon-metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors is studied experimentally. Cooling to the lattice is found to be more effective than expected from the bulk electron-phonon coupling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Prus , M. Reznikov , U. Sivan , V. Pudalov

We demonstrate quantum limited electronic refrigeration of a metallic island in a low temperature micro-circuit. We show that matching the impedance of the circuit enables refrigeration at a distance, of about 50 um in our case, through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey V. Timofeev , Meri Helle , Matthias Meschke , Mikko Möttönen , Jukka P. Pekola

We present evidence for the cooling of normal metal phonons by electron tunneling in a Superconductor - Normal metal - Superconductor tunnel junction. The normal metal electron temperature is extracted by comparing the device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sukumar Rajauria , P. S. Luo , T. Fournier , F. W. J. Hekking , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier

Refrigeration is an important enabler for quantum technology. The very low energy of the fundamental excitations typically utilized in quantum technology devices and systems requires temperature well below 1 K. Expensive cryostats are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 E. Mykkänen , J. S. Lehtinen , A. Ronzani , A. Kemppinen , A. Alkurdi , P. -O. Chapuis , M. Prunnila

We demonstrate the electrical and optical control of ferromagnetism in semiconductor heterostructures at high temperatures of 100-117 K. The heterostructures consist of Mn delta-doped GaAs and p-type AlGaAs, where the overlap of the hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ahsan M. Nazmul , S. Kobayashi , S. Sugahara , M. Tanaka

A superconductor-normal metal-superconductor mesoscopic Josephson junction has been realized in which the critical current is tuned through normal current injection using a symmetric electron cooler directly connected to the weak link. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Savin , J. P. Pekola , J. T. Flyktman , A. Anthore , F. Giazotto

We consider the prospect of using ultracold hydrogen atoms for sympathetic cooling of fluorine atoms to microkelvin temperatures. We carry out quantum-mechanical calculations on collisions between cold F and H atoms in magnetically…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 Maykel L. González-Martínez , Jeremy M. Hutson

A novel class of antiferromagnets, dubbed altermagnets, exhibit a non-relativistically spin-split band structure reminiscent of $d$-wave superconductors, despite the absence of net magnetization. This unique characteristic enables…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-15 Hans Gløckner Giil , Jacob Linder

In a normal-metal/insulator/superconductor (NIS) tunnel junction refrigerator, the normal-metal electrons are cooled and the dissipated power heats the superconducting electrode. This paper presents a review of the mechanisms by which heat…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-30 Galen C. O'Neil , Peter J. Lowell , Jason M. Underwood , Joel N. Ullom

Considerable experimental skills have been accumulated in the preparation of field-cooled (FC) magnetic materials. This stimulates the search for FC magnetic materials that are superconductors. The article overviews the recent proposed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-13 Naoum Karchev

We investigate electronic thermal rectification in ferromagnetic insulator-based superconducting tunnel junctions. Ferromagnetic insulators coupled to superconductors are known to induce sizable spin splitting in the superconducting density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

We investigate theoretically magnon-mediated superconductivity in a heterostructure consisting of a normal metal and a two-sublattice antiferromagnetic insulator. The attractive electron-electron pairing interaction is caused by an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Eirik Erlandsen , Akashdeep Kamra , Arne Brataas , Asle Sudbø

Identifying materials and devices which offer efficient thermoelectric effects at low temperature is a major obstacle for the development of thermal management strategies for low-temperature electronic systems. Superconductors cannot offer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 F. Giazotto , J. W. A. Robinson , J. S. Moodera , F. S. Bergeret

The comprehensive search for multifunctional materials has resulted in the discovery of semiconductors and oxides showing ferromagnetic features persisting to room temperature. In this tutorial review the methods of synthesis of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-12 Alberta Bonanni , Tomasz Dietl

Here we review recent progress in cooling micro/nanoelectronic devices significantly below 10 mK. A number of groups worldwide are working to produce sub-millikelvin on-chip electron temperatures, motivated by the possibility of observing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 A. T. Jones , C. P. Scheller , J. R. Prance , Y. B. Kalyoncu , D. M. Zumbühl , R. P. Haley

Hybrid Superconductor/Ferromagnet structures have been investigated recently to address the interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity. They also open up new routes for the investigation of out of equilibrium superconductivity.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Latempa , M. Aprili , I. Petkovic

We demonstrate electronic cooling of a suspended AuPd island using superconductor-insulator-normal metal tunnel junctions. This was achieved by developing a simple fabrication method for reliably releasing narrow submicron sized metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 J. T. Muhonen , A. O. Niskanen , M. Meschke , Yu. A. Pashkin , J. S. Tsai , L. Sainiemi , S. Franssila , J. P. Pekola

We study theoretically a process of cooling electrons using a superconducting tunnel junction with a $\pi$ phase difference and a usual insulator or a ferroelectric in-between, and an array of such junctions with ferroelectric layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Linus Aliani , Viktoriia Kornich

Recently, superconductivity was discovered at very low densities in slightly misaligned graphene multilayers. Surprisingly, despite extremely low electronic density (about $10^{-4}$ electrons per unit cell), these systems realize…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Ivar Martin

Superconducting properties of a material, such as electron-electron interactions and the critical temperature of superconducting transition can be expressed via the effective dielectric response function of the material. Such a description…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-01 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova