Noise measurement on single electron transistors using bias switching read-out

P.J. Hakonen; Mikko Kiviranta; Jari Penttilä; M. Paalanen

doi:10.1051/epjap:2000165

Noise measurement on single electron transistors using bias switching read-out

P.J. Hakonen^*
, Mikko Kiviranta
, Jari Penttilä
, M. Paalanen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Helsinki University of Technology

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Abstract

We present a simple bias reversal technique for single electron transistors (SET) to remove fluctuations of tunneling resistance from the read-out signal at low frequencies. The gain of the device is kept constant under bias reversal by using asymmetric junction capacitances. In our Al/AlO_x/Al devices with 1.2 μm island size and 100 × 100 nm² tunnel junctions, the noise at 10 Hz is 6 × 10^-4e/√(Hz), independent of the bias modulation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	227 - 229
Number of pages	3
Journal	The European Physical Journal: Applied Physics
Volume	11
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2000165
Publication status	Published - 2000
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

single electron transistors
Coulomb blockade
single-electron tunneling
tunneling

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