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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
Volume 154, Issue 5-6, Pages 211-220Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-009-9864-4
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Solid state cooling; Andreev reflection; Superconducting tunnel junction
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We discuss very low temperature experiments on superconducting micro-coolers made of a double Normal metal-Insulator-Superconductor junction. We investigate with a high resolution the differential conductance of the micro-cooler as well as of additional probe junctions. There is an explicit crossover between the single quasi-particle current and the phase-coherent Andreev current. We establish a thermal model by considering the thermal contribution due to the Andreev current. The related increase of the electron temperature is discussed, including the influence of several parameters like the phase-coherence length or the tunnel junction transparency.
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