Sub-50-mK electronic cooling with large-area superconducting tunnel junctions

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Nguyen, H Q ^a,b   Meschke, M ^a   Courtois, H ^c,d   Pekola, J P ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHONONS; TEMPERATURE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

HEAT TRANSPORT; INJECTION CURRENTS; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURES; LOW TEMPERATURES; NORMAL METALS; QUASI PARTICLES; SUPERCONDUCTING LEAD; SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTION;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 84915737836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.054001     Document Type: Article

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