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Influence of magnetic field on cooling by normal-insulator–superconductor junctions

2000

Cooling by normal-insulator–superconductor junctions in external magnetic field has been studied experimentally. For all orientations of magnetic field the cooling performance correlates with the magnetic field dependent superconducting energy gap Δ(H). In perpendicular orientation of magnetic field with respect to the sample plane, additional degradation of the cooling power originates from scattering of nonequilibrium quasiparticles in the superconductor on magnetic vortices. The effect is hysteretic and its magnitude depends on the shape of the superconducting probes.

PhysicsParamagnetismFlux pumpingCondensed matter physicsMagnetic energyMeissner effectCondensed Matter::SuperconductivityDemagnetizing fieldGeneral Physics and AstronomyDiamagnetismMagnetic pressureLittle–Parks effectJournal of Applied Physics
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Cooling of a superconductor by quasiparticle tunneling

1999

We have extended the cryogenic cooling method based on tunneling between a superconductor and another metal to the case when both metals are superconducting but when their energy gaps are different; earlier, this method was applied between a superconductor and a normal metal. The electron system of a titanium strip with the superconducting transition temperature Tc2=0.51 K has been cooled from 1.02Tc2 to below 0.7Tc2 by this method, using aluminum as the other superconductor.

SuperconductivityMaterials scienceFlux pinningFlux pumpingPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Condensed matter physicsCondensed Matter::SuperconductivityType-I superconductorQuasiparticleSuperconducting magnetic energy storageTechnological applications of superconductivityQuantum tunnelling
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