Large sensitive-area NbN nanowire superconducting single-photon detectors fabricated on single-crystal MgO substrates

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Miki, Shigehito ^a   Fujiwara, Mikio ^a   Sasaki, Masahide ^a   Baek, Burm ^b   Miller, Aaron J ^d   Hadfield, Robert H ^c   Nam, Sae Woo ^b   Wang, Zhen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL TESTING; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

CONSTRICTION DENSITY; KINETIC INDUCTANCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 39349090998     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2870099     Document Type: Article

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