Niobium superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-331

  Annunziata, Anthony J ^a   Santavicca, Daniel F ^a   Chudow, Joel D ^a   Frunzio, Luigi ^a   Rooks, Michael J ^b   Frydman, Aviad ^c   Prober, Daniel E ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Detection efficiency; Kinetic inductance; Latching, single photon detector; Superconducting nanowire

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; INPUT RESISTANCE; KINETIC INDUCTANCE; LATCHING, SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR; NANOWIRE DETECTOR; PHOTON DETECTOR; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; THERMAL INSTABILITIES; ULTRA-THIN;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; INDUCTANCE; NANOWIRES; NIOBIUM; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 68649083215     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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