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Among various types of neuromorphic devices towards artificial intelligence, the electrochemical synaptic transistor emerges, in which the channel conductance is modulated by the insertion of ions according to the history of gate voltage…
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We propose a remarkably simple electronic refrigerator based on the Coulomb barrier for single-electron tunneling. A fully normal single-electron transistor is voltage $V$ biased at a gate position such that tunneling through one of the…
We study the interplay between Coulomb blockade and superconductivity in a tunable superconductor-superconductor-normal metal single-electron transistor. The device is realized by connecting the superconducting island via an oxide barrier…