Funding
EMP is funded through the Horizon2020 programme of the European Commission.
Selected Publications

Method for cooling nanostructures to microkelvin temperatures

A.C. Clark, K.K. Schwarzwälder, T. Bandi, D. Maradan, D. M. Zumbühl

We propose a new scheme aimed at cooling nanostructures to microkelvin temperature based on the well established technique of adiabatic nuclear demagnetization: we attach each device measurement lead to an individual nuclear refrigerator, allowing efficient thermal contact to a microkelvin bath. On a prototype consisting of a parallel network of nuclear refrigerators, temperatures of ~ 1 mK simultaneously on ten measurement leads have been reached upon demagnetization, thus completing the first steps toward ultracold nanostructures.


Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 103904 (2010)

doi: 10.1063/1.3489892