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cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 46 cited

Wafer-scale graphene field-effect transistor biosensor arrays with monolithic CMOS readout

Miika Soikkeli, Anton Murros, Arto Rantala +11

The reliability of analysis is becoming increasingly important as point-of-care diagnostics are transitioning from single analyte detection towards multiplexed multianalyte detecti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 8 cited

Thermal transport in nanoelectronic devices cooled by on-chip magnetic refrigeration

S. Autti, F. C. Bettsworth, K. Grigoras +8

On-chip demagnetization refrigeration has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reaching microkelvin electron temperatures in nanoscale structures. The relative importance of coo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 15 cited

Scalable on-chip multiplexing of silicon single and double quantum dots

Heorhii Bohuslavskyi, Alberto Ronzani, Joel Hätinen +5

Owing to the maturity of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microelectronics, qubits realized with spins in silicon quantum dots (QDs) are considered among the most pro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 5 cited

Interplay of electron and phonon channels in the refrigeration through molecular junctions

Fatemeh Tabatabaei, Samy Merabia, Bernd Gotsmann +2

Due to their structured density of states, molecular junctions provide rich resources to filter and control the flow of electrons and phonons. Here we compute the out of equilibriu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Microkelvin electronics on a pulse-tube cryostat with a gate Coulomb blockade thermometer

Mohammad Samani, Christian P. Scheller, Nikolai Yurttagül +8

Access to lower temperatures has consistently enabled scientific breakthroughs. Pushing the limits of \emph{on-chip} temperatures deep into the microkelvin regime would open the do…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 13 cited

Dispersive readout of reconfigurable ambipolar quantum dots in a silicon-on-insulator nanowire

Jingyu Duan, Janne S. Lehtinen, Michael A. Fogarty +8

We report on ambipolar gate-defined quantum dots in silicon on insulator (SOI) nanowires fabricated using a customised complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. The a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 37 cited

Thermoelectric bolometers based on ultra-thin heavily doped single-crystal silicon membranes

Andrey V. Timofeev, Aapo Varpula, Andrey Shchepetov +5

We present ultra-thin silicon membrane thermocouple bolometers suitable for fast and sensitive detection of low levels of thermal power and infrared radiation at room temperature.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 31 cited

On-chip magnetic cooling of a nanoelectronic device

D. I. Bradley, A. M. Guénault, D. Gunnarsson +8

We demonstrate significant cooling of electrons in a nanostructure below 10 mK by demagnetisation of thin-film copper on a silicon chip. Our approach overcomes the typical bottlene…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 53 cited

Nanoelectronic thermometers optimised for sub-10 millikelvin operation

J. R. Prance, D. I. Bradley, R. E. George +8

We report the cooling of electrons in nanoelectronic Coulomb blockade thermometers below 4 mK. Above 7 mK the devices are in good thermal contact with the environment, well isolate…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014

Reconstructing phonon mean free path contributions to thermal conductivity using nanoscale membranes

John Cuffe, Jeffery K. Eliason, Alexei A. Maznev +8

Knowledge of the mean free path distribution of heat-carrying phonons is key to understanding phonon-mediated thermal transport. We demonstrate that thermal conductivity measuremen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 3 cited

Superconducting platinum silicide for electron cooling in silicon

M J Prest, J S Richardson-Bullock, Q T Zhao +7

We demonstrate electron cooling in silicon using platinum silicide as a superconductor contact to selectively remove the highest energy electrons. The superconducting critical temp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 63 cited

Ultra-Thin Free-Standing Single Crystalline Silicon Membranes With Strain Control

Andrey Shchepetov, Mika Prunnila, Francesc Alzina +6

We report on fabrication and characterization of ultra-thin suspended single crystalline flat silicon membranes with thickness down to 6 nm. We have developed a method to control t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 86 cited

Phonons in Slow Motion: Dispersion Relations in Ultra-Thin Si Membranes

John Cuffe, Emigdio Chavez, Andrey Shchepetov +11

We report the changes in dispersion relations of hypersonic acoustic phonons in free-standing silicon membranes as thin as \sim 8 nm. We observe a reduction of the phase and group…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 120 cited

Lifetimes of Confined Acoustic Phonons in Ultra-Thin Silicon Membranes

J. Cuffe, O. Ristow, E. Chávez +8

We study the relaxation of coherent acoustic phonon modes with frequencies up to 500 GHz in ultra-thin free-standing silicon membranes. Using an ultrafast pump-probe technique of a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 4 cited

Interlayer Heat Transfer in Bilayer Carrier Systems

Mika Prunnila, Sampo J. Laakso

We study theoretically how energy and heat are transferred between the two-dimensional layers of bilayer carrier systems due to near-field interlayer carrier interaction. We derive…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 23 cited

Primary thermometry in the intermediate Coulomb blockade regime

A. V. Feshchenko, M. Meschke, D. Gunnarsson +4

We investigate Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBT) in an intermediate temperature regime, where measurements with enhanced accuracy are possible due to the increased magnitude of t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 56 cited

Acoustic Phonon Tunneling and Heat Transport due to Evanescent Electric Fields

Mika Prunnila, Johanna Meltaus

The authors describe how acoustic phonons can directly tunnel through vacuum and, therefore, transmit energy and conduct heat between bodies that are separated by a vacuum gap. Thi…