Heating effects and Coulomb blockade in small tunnel junctions
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 46 (1), 571-574
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.46.571
Abstract
Dissipation of energy is enhanced in devices which exhibit Coulomb blockade effects. Increased electron-electron interactions imply that the energy that one electron loses when moving around a circuit, eV, is mostly dissipated in the region where Coulomb effects are important. We discuss the implications of these processes for superconducting devices, where the effective temperature at a given junction can be significantly higher than that in the rest of the system.Keywords
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