Suppressed critical current in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with high fill-factors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 318-322

  Yang, Joel K W ^a   Kerman, Andrew J ^a   Dauler, Eric A ^a   Cord, Bryan ^a   Anant, Vikas ^b   Molnar, Richard J ^a   Berggren, Karl K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical current; Detection efficiency; Fabrication; Single photon detectors

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FABRICATION PROCESS; FILL-FACTOR; HIGH FILLS; HIGH RESOLUTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; TEST RESULTS;

CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRIC WIRE; FABRICATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOWIRES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 68649103686     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2017953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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