Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Determining a temperature differential across a quantum dot

Hoffmann, E. A. ; Nakpathomkun, N. ; Persson, Ann LU ; Nilsson, Henrik LU ; Samuelson, Lars LU and Linke, H. (2008) In Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 40(5). p.1605-1607
Abstract
We present a method for determining a temperature differential across a quantum dot. If the device has a transmission function with sufficiently spaced resonant energies, then one can distinguish electrons which have tunneled from the hot lead, and those which have tunneled from the cold lead. By measuring the thermocurrent as the electrochemical potential is swept through a resonant energy level, information about the transmission function obtained from conductance measurements can be used to deduce the temperature differential of the electron gas across the device. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; ; ; ; and
organization
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
keywords
thermometry, thermoelectrics, quantum dot
in
Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
volume
40
issue
5
pages
1605 - 1607
publisher
Elsevier
external identifiers
  • wos:000254646400209
  • scopus:39649124196
ISSN
1386-9477
DOI
10.1016/j.physe.2007.09.197
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
fb15b9ea-5127-42e7-b25f-3c48cc42c53e (old id 1207406)
date added to LUP
2016-04-01 13:31:48
date last changed
2022-01-27 19:41:56
@article{fb15b9ea-5127-42e7-b25f-3c48cc42c53e,
  abstract     = {{We present a method for determining a temperature differential across a quantum dot. If the device has a transmission function with sufficiently spaced resonant energies, then one can distinguish electrons which have tunneled from the hot lead, and those which have tunneled from the cold lead. By measuring the thermocurrent as the electrochemical potential is swept through a resonant energy level, information about the transmission function obtained from conductance measurements can be used to deduce the temperature differential of the electron gas across the device. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.}},
  author       = {{Hoffmann, E. A. and Nakpathomkun, N. and Persson, Ann and Nilsson, Henrik and Samuelson, Lars and Linke, H.}},
  issn         = {{1386-9477}},
  keywords     = {{thermometry; thermoelectrics; quantum dot}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{5}},
  pages        = {{1605--1607}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures}},
  title        = {{Determining a temperature differential across a quantum dot}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2007.09.197}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.physe.2007.09.197}},
  volume       = {{40}},
  year         = {{2008}},
}