Author(s):
A. C. Clark, K. K. Schwarzwälder, T. Bandi, D. Maradan, and D. M. Zumbühl
Reference:
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 103904 (2010)
We propose a new scheme aimed at cooling nanostructures to microkelvin temperature based on the well established technique of adiabatic nuclear demagnetization: we attach each device measurement lead to an individual nuclear refrigerator, allowing efficient thermal contact to a microkelvin bath. On a prototype consisting of a parallel network of nuclear refrigerators, temperatures of ∼ 1 mK simultaneously on ten measurement leads have been reached upon demagnetization, thus completing the first steps toward ultracold nanostructures.