Ultimate quantum efficiency of a superconducting hot-electron photodetector

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 26, 1998, Pages 3938-3940

  Il'in, K S ^a   Milostnaya, I I ^a   Verevkin, A A ^a   Gol'tsman, G N ^a   Gershenzon, E M ^a   Sobolewski, Roman ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; INFRARED RADIATION; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

AVALANCHE BREAKING; COOPER PAIRS; NONEQUILIBRIUM QUASIPARTICLES; RESISTIVE STATE; SUPERCONDUCTING HOT ELECTRON PHOTODETECTOR;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0032576505     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122942     Document Type: Article

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