Zero-average Bias Bidirectional Single-electron Current Generation in a Hybrid Turnstile

Marín-Suárez, Marco and Pashkin, Yuri A. and Peltonen, Joonas T. and Pekola, Jukka P. (2023) Zero-average Bias Bidirectional Single-electron Current Generation in a Hybrid Turnstile. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 210 (1-2). pp. 232-240. ISSN 0022-2291

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Abstract

Hybrid turnstiles have proven to generate accurate single-electron currents. The usual operation consists of applying a periodic modulation to a capacitively coupled gate electrode and requires a nonzero DC source-drain bias voltage. Under this operation, a current of the same magnitude and opposite direction can be generated by flipping the polarity of the bias. Here, we demonstrate that accurate single-electron currents can be generated under zero average bias voltage. We achieve this by applying an extra periodic modulation with twice the frequency of the gate signal and zero DC level to the source electrode. This creates a time interval, which is otherwise zero, between the crossings of tunnelling thresholds that enable single-electron tunnelling. Furthermore, we show that within this operation the current direction can be reversed by only shifting the phase of the source signal.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? condensed matter physicsgeneral materials scienceatomic and molecular physics, and opticsgeneral materials scienceatomic and molecular physics, and opticscondensed matter physicsmaterials science(all) ??
ID Code:
177706
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Deposited On:
20 Oct 2022 14:05
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Yes
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Published
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16 Jul 2024 11:55