Sukumar Rajauria

Sukumar Rajauria is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He completed his M. Sc. in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Joseph Fourier/Neel, Grenoble, France. Sukumar spent much of his Ph.D study working on electronic nano-refrigeration using superconducting tunnel junctions. His work at CNST will involve understanding the physics of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and the use of NEMS in a variety of applications.

• Spin-valve effect of the spin accumulation resistance in a double superconductor-ferromagnet junction, P. S. Luo, B. Gilles, T. Crozes, S. Rajauria, B. Pannetier and H. Courtois, Physical Review B Rapid Communications 79, 140508(R) (2009).
• Competition between electronic cooling and Andreev dissipation in a superconductor micro-cooler, Sukumar Rajauria, P. Gandit, F. W. J. Hekking, B. Pannetier and H. Courtois, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 154, 211-220 (2009).
• Inherent thermometry in a hybrid superconducting tunnel junction, H. Courtois, Sukumar Rajauria, P. Gandit, F. W. J. Hekking and B. Pannetier, Journal of Low Temperature Physics 153, 325 (2008).
• Andreev current-induced dissipation in a hybrid superconducting tunnel junction, Sukumar Rajauria, P. Gandit, T. Fournier, F. W. J. Hekking, B. Pannetier and H. Courtois, Physical Review Letters 100, 207002 (2008).
• " Electron and phonon cooling in a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor tunnel junction, Sukumar Rajauria, P. S. Luo, T. Fournier, F. W. J. Hekking, H. Courtois and B. Pannetier, Physical Review Letters 99, 047004 (2007).