Heat transistor: Demonstration of gate-controlled electronic refrigeration
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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Date
2007-07-09
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en
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4
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1-4
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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Volume 99, issue 2
Abstract
We present experiments on a superconductor–normal-metal electron refrigerator in a regime where single-electron charging effects are significant. The system functions as a heat transistor; i.e., the heat flux out from the normal-metal island can be controlled with a gate voltage. A theoretical model developed within the framework of single-electron tunneling provides a full quantitative agreement with the experiment. This work serves as the first experimental observation of Coulombic control of heat transfer and, in particular, of refrigeration in a mesoscopic system.Description
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electronic refrigeration, heat transistor, superconductor-nrmal metal
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Saira , O-P , Meschke , M , Giazotto , F , Savin , A , Möttönen , M & Pekola , J 2007 , ' Heat transistor: Demonstration of gate-controlled electronic refrigeration ' , Physical Review Letters , vol. 99 , no. 2 , 027203 , pp. 1-4 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.027203