Dark counts in nanostructured NbN superconducting single-photon detectors and bridges

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 275-278

  Kitaygorsky, J ^a   Komissarov, I ^a   Jukna, A ^a,b   Pan, D ^a   Minaeva, O ^c   Kaurova, N ^c   Divochiy, A ^c   Korneev, A ^c   Tarkhov, M ^c   Voronov, B ^c   Milostnaya, I ^c   Gol'tsman, G ^c   Sobolewski, Roman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

BKT transition; Dark counts in photodetectors; Single photon optical detectors; Superconducting nanobridges; Two dimensional superconductors; Vortex antivortex depairing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INDUCTANCE; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DARK COUNTS; SINGLE-PHOTON OPTICAL DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOBRIDGES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS; VORTEX-ANTIVORTEX DEPAIRING;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 34547488532     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.898109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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