Paper Title:
A Novel Refrigerator Device Using Single-Electron Pump Applicable to SOI Wafers
| Periodical | Advanced Materials Research (Volume 222) |
|---|---|
| Main Theme | Global Research and Education |
| Edited by | Arturs Medvids |
| Pages | 66-69 |
| DOI | 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.222.66 |
| Citation | Hiroya Ikeda et al., 2011, Advanced Materials Research, 222, 66 |
| Online since | April, 2011 |
| Authors | Hiroya Ikeda, Faiz Salleh |
| Keywords | Coulomb Blockade, Monte-Carlo Simulation, Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI), Single-Electron Pump, Single-Electron Refrigerator |
| Price | US$ 28,- |
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Abstract
We propose a novel single-electron refrigerator (SER) which can be fabricated in silicon-on-insulator wafers. The SER has a structure of single-electron box combined with single-electron pump (SEP). An equivalent circuit of the SEP-refrigerator is represented and its stability diagram (Coulomb diamond) is theoretically calculated. It is found that the stability diagram has a honeycomb structure. Moreover, the operation of the single-electron transfer and single-electron storage is numerically demonstrated using a Monte Carlo simulation based on the orthodox theory of the Coulomb blockade phenomenon.
