The recent developments in nanoscale solid-state cooling are reviewed. This includes both
theoretical and experimental studies of different physical concepts, as well as …

Quantum technology promises revolutionizing applications in information processing,
communications, sensing and modelling. However, efficient on-demand cooling of the …

Thermo-electric transport at the nano-scale is a rapidly developing topic, in particular in
superconductor-based hybrid devices. In this review paper, we first discuss the fundamental …

A superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junction is a coherent electron
system where the thermodynamic entropy depends on temperature and difference of phase …

Taiwan is one of the world's largest provider of thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT–
LCD) panels, second only to Korea. In 1998, Taiwan accounted for only 1% of market share …

Abstract The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is the only observable that
allows studying the earliest stage of the Universe. Radioastronomy instruments for CMB …

The performance of hybrid superconducting electronic coolers is usually limited by the
accumulation of hot quasi-particles in their superconducting leads. This issue is all the more …

We present a microwave quantum refrigeration principle based on the Josephson effect.
When a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) is pierced by a time …

Efficient electron-refrigeration based on a normal-metal/spin-filter/superconductor junction is
proposed and demonstrated theoretically. The spin-filtering effect leads to values of the …

We propose a quantum-circuit refrigerator (QCR) based on photon-assisted quasiparticle
tunneling through a single normal-metal–insulator–superconductor (NIS) junction. In …