Bloch oscillating transistor: A new mesoscopic amplifier

J. Delahaye; Juha Hassel; R. Lindell; M. Sillanpää; M. Paalanen; Heikki Seppä; P. Hakonen

doi:10.1016/S1386-9477(02)00936-0

Bloch oscillating transistor: A new mesoscopic amplifier

J. Delahaye
, Juha Hassel
, R. Lindell
, M. Sillanpää
, M. Paalanen
, Heikki Seppä
, P. Hakonen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Helsinki University of Technology

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Abstract

Bloch oscillating transistor (BOT) is a novel, three-terminal Josephson junction device. Its operating principle utilizes the fact that Zener tunneling up to a higher band will lead to a blockade of coherent Cooper-pair tunneling, Bloch oscillation, in a suitably biased Josephson junction. The Bloch oscillation is resumed only after the junction has relaxed to the lowest band by quasiparticle tunneling. In this paper we present a simple model for the operation of the BOT and calculate its gain in terms of the interband transition rates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-16
Journal	Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
Volume	18
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1386-9477(02)00936-0
Publication status	Published - 2003
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed
Event	23rd International Conference on Low Temperature Physics - Hiroshima, Japan Duration: 20 Aug 2002 → 27 Aug 2002

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mesoscopic superconductivity
quantum amplifier
bloch oscillation

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