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

Radio frequency Coulomb-blockade thermometry

Florian Blanchet, Yu-Cheng Chang, Bayan Karimi, Joonas T. Peltonen, Jukka P. Pekola

We present a scheme and demonstrate measurements of a Coulomb blockade thermometer (CBT) in a microwave transmission setup. The sensor is embedded in an LCR resonator, where R is determined by the conductance of the junction array of the CBT. A transmission measurement yields a signal that is directly proportional to the conductance of the CBT, thus enabling the calibration-free operation of the thermometer. This is verified by measuring an identical sensor simultaneously in the usual dc setup. The important advantage of the rf measurement is its speed: the whole bias dependence of the CBT conductance can now be measured in a time of about 100ms, which is thousand times faster than in a standard dc measurement. The achieved noise equivalent temperature of this first rf primary measurement is about 1mK/√Hz at the bath temperature T=200mK.


Phys. Rev. Applied 17, L011003 (2022)

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.17.L011003

arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09677