Primary Thermometry in the Intermediate Coulomb Blockade Regime

@article{Feshchenko2013PrimaryTI,
  title={Primary Thermometry in the Intermediate Coulomb Blockade Regime},
  author={A. V. Feshchenko and Matthias Meschke and David Gunnarsson and Mika Prunnila and Leif Roschier and Jari S. Penttil{\"a} and Jukka P. Pekola},
  journal={Journal of Low Temperature Physics},
  year={2013},
  volume={173},
  pages={36-44}
}
We investigate Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBT) in an intermediate temperature regime, where measurements with enhanced accuracy are possible due to the increased magnitude of the differential conductance dip. Previous theoretical results show that corrections to the half width and to the depth of the measured conductance dip of a sensor are needed, when leaving the regime of weak Coulomb blockade towards lower temperatures. In the present work, we demonstrate experimentally that the… 
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