Noise of a superconducting photon detector

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART I, 2005, Pages 518-521

  Semenov, Alexei ^a   Engel, Andreas ^b   Il'in, Konstantin ^c   Siegel, Michael ^c   Hübers, Heinz Wilhelm ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b PHYSIK INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electric noise; Fluctuations; Photon detection; Superconducting nanostructures

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY GAP; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

ELECTRIC NOISE; FLUCTUATIONS; PHOTON DETECTION; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOSTRUCTURES;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 22044436522     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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