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

Andreev current for low temperature thermometry

T. Faivre, D. Golubev, J. Pekola
We demonstrate experimentally that disorder enhanced Andreev current in a tunnel junction between a normal metal and a superconductor provides a method to measure electronic temperature, specifically at temperatures below 200 mK when aluminum is used. This Andreev thermometer has some advantages over conventional quasiparticle thermometers: For instance, it does not conduct heat and its reading does not saturate until at lower temperatures. Another merit is that the responsivity is constant over a wide temperature range.

applied physics letters 106 18, 1-4

doi: 10.1063/1.4919892