Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Yuan, Mingyun ^a   Singh, Vibhor ^a   Blanter, Yaroslav M ^a   Steele, Gary A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON NITRIDE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; COOLING; FILTER; GENERATOR; LOW TEMPERATURE; MECHANICS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOTION; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 84944200313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9491     Document Type: Article

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