scholarly journals Thermionic junction devices utilizing phonon blocking

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (15) ◽  
pp. eaax9191
Author(s):  
Emma Mykkänen ◽  
Janne S. Lehtinen ◽  
Leif Grönberg ◽  
Andrey Shchepetov ◽  
Andrey V. Timofeev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conduction ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Bath Temperature ◽  
Radiation Detectors ◽  
Optimal Operation ◽  
Acoustic Transmission ◽  
Energy Harvesters ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap ◽  
Quantum Technology

Electrothermal elements are used in various energy harvesters, coolers, and radiation detectors. The optimal operation of these elements relies on mastering two competing boundary conditions: the maximization of the electrothermal response and the blockade of lattice (phonon) thermal conduction. In this work, we propose and demonstrate that efficient electrothermal operation and phonon blocking can be achieved in solid-state thermionic junctions, paving the way for new phonon-engineered high-efficiency refrigerators and sensors. Our experimental demonstration uses semiconductor-superconductor (Sm-S) junctions where the electrothermal response arises from the superconducting energy gap and the phonon blocking results from the acoustic transmission bottleneck at the junction. We demonstrate a cooling platform where a silicon chip, suspended only from the Sm-S junctions, is cooled by ~40% from the bath temperature. We also show how the observed effect can be used in radiation detectors and multistage electronic refrigerators suitable for cooling of quantum technology devices.

Superconducting Tunnel Junction Spectrometers for High Resolution Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (S2) ◽  
pp. 174-175
Author(s):  
Carl A. Mears
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Energy Dispersive Spectrometer ◽  
Energy Dispersive ◽  
Superconducting Tunnel Junction ◽  
Cooper Pairs ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap ◽  
The Difference

We have been developing superconducting tunnel junctions (STJs) for use as high-resolution energy dispersive spectrometers. STJ detectors simultaneously offer energy resolution better than 15 eV at 1 keV, count rates in excess of 10,000 counts per second, broad bandwidth and high efficiency. These attributes make them desirable detectors in a variety of applications, including x-ray microanalysis.When an x-ray photon is absorbed in a superconductor, about 60% of its energy is used to break the Cooper pairs that make up the superconducting ground state into excited electron-like and hole-like states called quasiparticles. This process is analogous to the creation of electron-hole pairs in a conventional energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) based on silicon or germanium. The difference is that the superconducting energy gap Δ is on the order of a few millielectron volts, roughly a factor of 1000 less than the band gap in common semiconductors.

scholarly journals Modeling Energy Efficiency Performance and Cost-Benefit Analysis Achieving Net-Zero Energy Building Design: Case Studies of Three Representative Offices in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5201
Author(s):  
Kittisak Lohwanitchai ◽  
Daranee Jareemit
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Zero Energy Building ◽  
Investment Cost ◽  
High Investment

The concept of a zero energy building is a significant sustainable strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The challenges of zero energy building (ZEB) achievement in Thailand are that the design approach to reach ZEB in office buildings is unclear and inconsistent. In addition, its implementation requires a relatively high investment cost. This study proposes a guideline for cost-optimal design to achieve the ZEB for three representative six-story office buildings in hot and humid Thailand. The energy simulations of envelope designs incorporating high-efficiency systems are carried out using eQuest and daylighting simulation using DIALux evo. The final energy consumptions meet the national ZEB target but are higher than the rooftop PV generation. To reduce such an energy gap, the ratios of building height to width are proposed. The cost-benefit of investment in ZEB projects provides IRRs ranging from 10.73 to 13.85%, with payback periods of 7.2 to 8.5 years. The energy savings from the proposed designs account for 79.2 to 81.6% of the on-site energy use. The investment of high-performance glazed-windows in the small office buildings is unprofitable (NPVs = −14.77–−46.01). These research results could help architects and engineers identify the influential parameters and significant considerations for the ZEB design. Strategies and technical support to improve energy performance in large and mid-rise buildings towards ZEB goals associated with the high investment cost need future investigations.

Superconducting energy gap from break-junction tunneling spectroscopy in the ternary silicide CaAlSi

2007 ◽  
Vol 76 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kuroiwa ◽  
T. Takasaki ◽  
T. Ekino ◽  
J. Akimitsu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Gap ◽  
Tunneling Spectroscopy ◽  
Break Junction ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap ◽  
Ternary Silicide

scholarly journals Phonon self-energy effects in the superconducting energy gap ofMgB2point-contact spectra

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. K. Yanson ◽  
S. I. Beloborod’ko ◽  
Yu. G. Naidyuk ◽  
O. V. Dolgov ◽  
A. A. Golubov
Keyword(s):  
Energy Gap ◽  
Self Energy ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap

High Tc Oxide Superconductors

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
M. Brian Maple
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Vortex State ◽  
Oxide Superconductors ◽  
High Tc ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap ◽  
Consistent Picture ◽  
Novel Processing ◽  
Processing Techniques

This issue of the MRS BULLETIN is devoted to high Tc superconductivity. It is the sequel to a previous series of articles on the same subject which appeared in the MRS BULLETIN in January 1989. While the articles in the January 1989 issue emphasized the families of high Tc superconducting oxides known at that rime, as well as novel processing techniques and thin films, the papers in this issue focus on the physical properties of high Tc oxide superconductors.The quality of polycrystalline and single-crystal bulk and thin-film materials has improved to the point where researchers can now make reliable measurements of many physical properties representative of the intrinsic behavior of these materials. As a result, a broad spectrum of important issues such as the nature of the electronic structure, the type of superconducting electron pairing, the magnitude and temperature dependence of the superconducting energy gap, the behavior of fluxoids in the vortex state, etc., can be addressed meaningfully. Presently emerging is a consistent picture of the physical properties of the high Tc oxides, which will form the foundation to eventually developing an appropriate theory for the normal and superconducting states of these remarkable materials.

Measurement of the Superconducting Energy Gap and Fermi Velocity in Single-Crystal Lead Films by Electron Tunneling

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1523-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. I. Lykken ◽  
A. L. Geiger ◽  
K. S. Dy ◽  
E. N. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Single Crystal ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Electron Tunneling ◽  
Fermi Velocity ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap ◽  
Lead Films

scholarly journals Higher derivatives driven symmetry breaking in holographic superconductors

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Li Li ◽  
Guoyang Fu ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Jian-Pin Wu ◽  
Xin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature Superconductor ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Coupling Term ◽  
Holographic Superconductor ◽  
Complex Scalar ◽  
Holographic Superconductors ◽  
Higher Derivative ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap ◽  
Higher Derivatives ◽  
Complex Scalar Field

Abstract In this paper, we construct a novel holographic superconductor from higher derivative (HD) gravity involving a coupling between the complex scalar field and the Weyl tensor. This HD coupling term provides a near horizon effective mass squared, which can violates IR Breitenlohner–Freedman (BF) bound by tuning the HD coupling and induces the instability of black brane such that the superconducting phase transition happens. We also study the properties of the condensation and the conductivity in the probe limit. We find that a wider extension of the superconducting energy gap ranging from 4.6 to 10.5 may provide a novel platform to model and interpret the phenomena in the real materials of high temperature superconductor.

scholarly journals Momentum-resolved superconducting energy gaps of Sr2RuO4 from quasiparticle interference imaging

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (10) ◽  
pp. 5222-5227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Sharma ◽  
Stephen D. Edkins ◽  
Zhenyu Wang ◽  
Andrey Kostin ◽  
Chanchal Sow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knight Shift ◽  
Energy Gap ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Superconducting Order Parameter ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
High Precision Measurement ◽  
Quasiparticle Interference ◽  
Energy Gaps ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap ◽  
Intense Research

Sr2RuO4 has long been the focus of intense research interest because of conjectures that it is a correlated topological superconductor. It is the momentum space (k-space) structure of the superconducting energy gap Δi(k) on each band i that encodes its unknown superconducting order parameter. However, because the energy scales are so low, it has never been possible to directly measure the Δi(k) of Sr2RuO4. Here, we implement Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference (BQPI) imaging, a technique capable of high-precision measurement of multiband Δi(k). At T = 90 mK, we visualize a set of Bogoliubov scattering interference wavevectors qj:j=1−5 consistent with eight gap nodes/minima that are all closely aligned to the (±1,±1) crystal lattice directions on both the α and β bands. Taking these observations in combination with other very recent advances in directional thermal conductivity [E. Hassinger et al., Phys. Rev. X 7, 011032 (2017)], temperature-dependent Knight shift [A. Pustogow et al., Nature 574, 72–75 (2019)], time-reversal symmetry conservation [S. Kashiwaya et al., Phys. Rev B, 100, 094530 (2019)], and theory [A. T. Rømer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247001 (2019); H. S. Roising, T. Scaffidi, F. Flicker, G. F. Lange, S. H. Simon, Phys. Rev. Res. 1, 033108 (2019); and O. Gingras, R. Nourafkan, A. S. Tremblay, M. Côté, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217005 (2019)], the BQPI signature of Sr2RuO4 appears most consistent with Δi(k) having dx2−y2(B1g) symmetry.

Infrared Conductivity and Superconducting Energy Gap in MgB2

2007 ◽  
pp. 267-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Pimenov
Keyword(s):  
Energy Gap ◽  
Superconducting Energy Gap
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