Fabrication and properties of an ultrafast NbN hot-electron single-photon detector

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 11, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 574-577

  Gol'Tsman, G ^a   Okunev, O ^a   Chulkova, G ^a   Lipatov, A ^a   Dzardanov, A ^a   Smirnov, K ^a   Semenov, A ^a   Voronov, B ^a   Williams, C ^b   Sobolewski, Roman ^b,c  

^a MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Infrared photon counter; Superconducting optoelectronics; Ultrafast single quantum detector; Ultrathin superconductor film

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DEVICE MANUFACTURE; INFRARED DETECTORS; LASER BEAMS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

HOT ELECTRON SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR; INFRARED PHOTON COUNTER; SUPERCONDUCTING OPTOELECTRONICS; ULTRAFAST SINGLE QUANTUM DETECTOR; ULTRATHIN SUPERCONDUCTOR FILM;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 17844366076     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.919410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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