Substrate-dependent quasiparticle recombination time in superconducting resonators

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© 2011 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters and may be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/99/6/10.1063/1.3624463

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School of Science | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2011

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en

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062509/1-3

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Applied Physics Letters, Volume 99, Issue 6

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We demonstrate an increased quasiparticle recombination time in superconductingresonators on a SiN x membrane, compared to identical resonators on a SiN x /Si wafer. An interpretation is given using a thermal model of the membrane. Using an array of tunnel junctions to cool or heat the membrane, we show that the resonators on the membranes are extremely sensitive to small changes of the phonon temperature, which renders them excellent phonon thermometers with a noise level equivalent to 5μK/√Hz. The experimental set-up is in principle an ideal platform to study the interplay of quasiparticles and phonon populations in superconductors.

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phonons, collective excitations, laser resonators, relaxation times, superconductivity

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Vercruyssen, N. & Barends, R. & Klapwijk, T. M. & Muhonen, J. T. & Meschke, M. & Pekola, Jukka. 2011. Substrate-dependent quasiparticle recombination time in superconducting resonators. Applied Physics Letters. Volume 99, Issue 6. P. 062509/1-3. ISSN 0003-6951 (printed). DOI: 10.1063/1.3624463.