Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Nanoelectronic primary thermometry below 4 mK

  • D. I. Bradley,
  • R. E. George,
  • D. Gunnarsson,
  • R. P. Haley,
  • H. Heikkinen,
  • Yu. A. Pashkin,
  • J. Penttilä,
  • J. R. Prance,
  • M. Prunnila,
  • L. Roschier,
  • M. Sarsby

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10455
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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When cooled to the millikelvin scale, nanoelectronic structures can become thermally detached from their environment, limiting nanoscale electronic thermometry. Here, the authors demonstrate the robust cooling of optimally-designed Coulomb blockade thermometer devices down to the millikelvin scale.