Kinetic-inductance-limited reset time of superconducting nanowire photon counters

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Kerman, Andrew J ^a   Dauler, Eric A ^a   Keicher, William E ^a   Yang, Joel K W ^a   Berggren, Karl K ^a   Gol'tsman, G ^b   Voronov, B ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; NANOWIRES; PHOTON COUNTERS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOSPHORESCENCE; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33645159837     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2183810     Document Type: Article

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