Kechedzhi, K. and Horsell, D. W. and Tikhonenko, F. V. and Savchenko, A. K. and Gorbachev, R. V. and Lerner, I. V. and Falko, Vladimir (2009) Quantum Transport Thermometry for Electrons in Graphene. Physical review letters, 102 (6): 066801. ISSN 1079-7114
Abstract
We propose a method of measuring the electron temperature T-e in mesoscopic conductors and demonstrate experimentally its applicability to micron-size graphene devices in the linear-response regime (T-e approximate to T, the bath temperature). The method can be especially useful in case of overheating, T-e > T. It is based on analysis of the correlation function of mesoscopic conductance fluctuations. Although the fluctuation amplitude strongly depends on the details of electron scattering in graphene, we show that T-e extracted from the correlation function is insensitive to these details.