Superconducting single photon detectors made by local oxidation with an atomic force microscope

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Delacour, C ^a   Claudon, J ^a   Poizat, J Ph ^a   Pannetier, B ^a   Bouchiat, V ^a   De Lamaestre, R Espiau ^b   Villegier, J C ^c   Tarkhov, M ^d   Korneev, A ^d   Voronov, B ^d   Gol'Tsman, G ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

NIOBIUM NITRIDE; NIOBIUM OXYNITRIDE; PHOTON DETECTION;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 34248402048     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2738195     Document Type: Article

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