Browsing by Author "Savin, A. M."
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School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2004) Savin, A. M.; Pekola, Jukka P.; Flyktman, J. T.; Anthore, A.; Giazotto, F.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 enhancement of the critical current by more than a factor of two, and supercurrent suppression have been achieved by varying the cooler bias. Furthermore, this transistor-like device demonstrates large current gain (∼20) and low power dissipation. - Cryogenic Differential Amplifier for NMR Applications
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2018) Zavjalov, V. V.; Savin, A. M.; Hakonen, P. J.We have designed and characterized a cryogenic amplifier for use in 3He NMR spectrometry. The amplifier, with a power consumption of ∼ 2.5 mW, works at temperatures down to 4 K. It has a high-impedance input for measuring a signal from NMR resonant circuit, and a 50 Ω differential input which can be used for pick-up compensation and gain calibration. At 4.2 K, the amplifier has a voltage gain of 45, output resistance 146 Ω and a 4.4 MHz bandwidth starting from DC. At 1 MHz, the voltage and current noise amount to 1.3 nV/Hz and 12 fA/Hz, respectively, which yields an optimal source impedance of ∼ 100 kΩ. - High-resolution superconducting single-flux quantum comparator for sub-Kelvin temperatures
School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2006) Savin, A. M.; Pekola, Jukka P.; Holmqvist, T.; Hassel, J.; Grönberg, L.; Helistö, P.; Kidiyarova-Shevchenko, A.A design of sub-Kelvin single-flux quantum (SFQ) circuits with reduced power dissipation and additional cooling of shunt resistors has been developed and characterized. The authors demonstrate operation of SFQ comparators with current resolution of 40nA at 2GHz sampling rate. Due to improved cooling the electron temperature in shunt resistors of a SFQ comparator is below 50mK when the bath temperature is about 30mK. - Limitations in Cooling Electrons using Normal-Metal-Superconductor Tunnel Junctions
School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2004) Pekola, Jukka P.; Heikkilä, T. T.; Savin, A. M.; Flyktman, J. T.; Giazotto, F.; Hekking, F. W. J.We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally two limiting factors in cooling electrons using biased tunnel junctions to extract heat from a normal metal into a superconductor. First, when the injection rate of electrons exceeds the internal relaxation rate in the metal to be cooled, the electrons do not obey the Fermi-Dirac distribution, and the concept of temperature cannot be applied as such. Second, at low bath temperatures, states within the gap induce anomalous heating and yield a theoretical limit of the achievable minimum temperature. - Manipulation and Generation of Supercurrent in Out-of-Equilibrium Josephson Tunnel Nanojunctions
School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2008) Tirelli, S.; Savin, A. M.; Garcia, C. Pascual; Pekola, Jukka P.; Beltram, F.; Giazotto, F.We demonstrate experimentally the manipulation of supercurrent in Al−AlOx−Ti Josephson tunnel junctions by injecting quasiparticles in a Ti island from two additional tunnel-coupled Al superconducting reservoirs. Both supercurrent enhancement and quenching with respect to equilibrium are achieved. We demonstrate cooling of the Ti line by quasiparticle injection from the normal state deep into the superconducting phase. A model based on heat transport and the nonmonotonic current-voltage characteristic of a Josephson junction satisfactorily accounts for our findings. - Parity effect in Al and Nb single electron transistors in a tunable environment
School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2007) Savin, A. M.; Meschke, M.; Pekola, Jukka P.; Pashkin, Yu. A.; Li, T. F.; Im, H.; Tsai, J. S.Two different types of Cooper pair transistors, with Al and Nb islands, have been investigated in a tunable electromagnetic environment. The device with an Al island demonstrates gate charge modulation with 2e periodicity in a wide range of environmental impedances at bath temperatures below 340mK. Contrary to the results of the Al sample, the authors were not able to detect 2e periodicity under any conditions on similar samples with Nb island. The authors attribute this to the material properties of Nb. - Thermal budget of superconducting digital circuits at subkelvin temperatures
School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2006) Savin, A. M.; Pekola, Jukka P.; Averin, D. V.; Semenov, V. K.Superconducting single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits have so far been developed and optimized for operation at or above helium temperatures. The SFQ approach, however, should also provide potentially viable and scalable control and readout circuits for Josephson-junction qubits and other applications with much lower, millikelvin, operating temperatures. This paper analyzes the overheating problem which becomes important in this temperature range. We suggest a thermal model of the SFQ circuits at subkelvin temperatures and present experimental results on overheating of electrons and silicon substrate which support this model. The model establishes quantitative limitations on the dissipated power both for “local” electron overheating in resistors and “global” overheating due to ballistic phonon propagation along the substrate. Possible changes in the thermal design of SFQ circuits in view of the overheating problem are also discussed.