Metallic Coulomb blockade thermometry down to 10 mK and below

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 83, issue 8, pp. 1-3

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We present an improved nuclear refrigerator reaching 0.3 mK, aimed at microkelvin nanoelectronic experiments, and use it to investigate metallic Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBTs) with various resistances R. The high-R devices cool to slightly lower T, consistent with better isolation from the noise environment, and exhibit electron-phonon cooling ∝ T 5 and a residual heat-leak of 40 aW. In contrast, the low-R CBTs display cooling with a clearly weaker T-dependence, deviating from the electron-phonon mechanism. The CBTs agree excellently with the refrigerator temperature above 20 mK and reach a minimum-T of 7.5 ± 0.2 mK.

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Casparis, L, Meschke, M, Maradan, D, Clark, A C, Scheller, C P, Schwarzwälder, K K, Pekola, J P & Zumbühl, D M 2012, 'Metallic Coulomb blockade thermometry down to 10 mK and below', Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 83, no. 8, 083903, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4744944