Selected Publications
- Slippage and Boundary Layer Probed in an Almost Ideal Gas by a Nanomechanical Oscillator
M. Defoort et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136101 (2014) - Evidence for the role of normal-state electrons in nanoelectromechanical damping mechanisms at very low temperatures
K.J. Lulla et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 177206 (2013) - Phase Diagram of the Topological Superfluid 3He Confined in a Nanoscale Slab Geometry
L.V. Levitin et al., Science 340, 841-844 (2013) - Energy and angular momentum balance in wall-bounded quantum turbulence at very low temperatures
J.J. Hosio et al., Nature Commun. 4, 1614 (2013) - Evidence for Helical Nuclear Spin Order in GaAs Quantum Wires
C.P. Scheller et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066801 (2013) - Observation of a roton collective mode in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid
H. Godfrin et al., Nature 483, 576 (2012) - The Josephson heat interferometer
F. Giazotto, M.J. Martinez-Perez, Nature 492, 401 (2012)
Characterization of aluminum oxide tunnel barriers by combining transport measurements and transmission electron microscopy imaging
Aref, T., Averin, A., van Dijken, S., Ferring, A., Koberidze, M., Maisi, V.F., Nquyend, H.Q., Nieminen, R.M., Pekola, J.P. and Yao, L.D.We present two approaches for studying the uniformity of a tunnel barrier. The first approach is based on measuring single-electron and two-electron tunneling in a hybrid single-electron transistor. Our measurements indicate that the effective area of a conduction channel is about one order of magnitude larger than predicted by theoretical calculations. With the second method, transmission electron microscopy, we demonstrate that variations in the barrier thickness are a plausible explanation for the larger effective area and an enhancement of higher order tunneling processes.
Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 073702 (2014)
doi: 10.1063/1.4893473