Heat Transport from On-demand Single-Electron Sources
Doktorsavhandling, 2019

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fluctuations and noise

thermoelectric devices

energy-selective detector

single-electron source

charge and heat currents

Författare

Nastaran Dashti

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Tillämpad kvantfysik

Inkluderade delarbeten

N. Dashti, S. Kheradsoud, M. Misiorny, P. Samuelsson, and J. Splettstoesser, “ Screening effects in the interplay between thermoelectric response and time-dependent driving”

Manuskript

Populärvetenskaplig beskrivning

Engelska

Nowadays, the possibility to manipulate nanodevices at the scale of single elec- trons opens a plethora of novel opportunities for electronic applications. These applications are ranging from metrology to the emerging field of quantum optics with electrons. For all of them, one needs accurate on-demand single-electron sources (SESs) that ensure well-controlled emission of electrons into the device. This thesis aims to understand the fundamental properties of single electrons emitted from such sources.

Usually, when one talks about current sources in the context of electronic circuits, one typically thinks of currents carrying an almost continuous stream on the order of 10^16 electrons per second. In contrast, the SESs discussed in this thesis are capable of emitting well-separated charge pulses, each carrying no more than a few or even a single electron. As a result, one gains precise control over the emitted pulse which, in turn, is crucial for the aforementioned electronic applications. Such prospective applications serve as our key motivation for investigating different characterization tools for the properties of SESs. These properties are, in particular, fluctuations in the emission and the energy spectrum of the emitted electrons. They can be revealed by measurements of charge and heat carried by these currents. In this thesis we study charge and heat currents from SESs and propose devices and schemes for their readout.

Kategorisering

Styrkeområden

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik (SO 2010-2017, EI 2018-)

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan fysik

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

Identifikatorer

ISBN

978-91-7905-175-4

Övrigt

Serie

Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola. Ny serie: 4642

Utgivare

Chalmers

Examination

2019-10-04 13:00

in Kollektorn (A423), MC2, Kemivägen 9, Chalmers, Göteborg

Opponent: Dr. Fabio Taddei, Scuola Normale Superiore and Instituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa, Italy

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2020-02-06