Robustness of single-electron pumps at sub-ppm current accuracy level

We report on characterizations of single-electron pumps at the highest accuracy level, enabled by improvements of the small-current measurement technique. With these improvements a new accuracy record in measurements on single-electron pumps is demonstrated: 0.16 µA A−1 of relative combined uncertainty was reached within less than 1 d of measurement time. Additionally, robustness tests of pump operation on a sub-ppm level revealed a good stability of tunable-barrier single-electron pumps against variations in the operating parameters.

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