Afterpulsing and instability in superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetectors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Marsili, F ^a   Najafi, F ^a   Dauler, E ^b   Molnar, R J ^b   Berggren, K K ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERPULSING; AVALANCHE FORMATION; AVALANCHE PHOTODETECTOR (APD); CURRENT MARGINS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE;

INDUCTANCE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84859996028     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3691944     Document Type: Article

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12. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3691944 E-APPLAB-100-077210 for fabrication process and experimental setup; amplitude of the response pulses in the unstable regime; electrothermal simulation of 2- and 3-SNAPs in the unstable regime; dependency of the avalanche current on the number of sections and r; discussion on the afterpulsing of sub-1-ns-reset-time devices; and Low-reset-time SNAPs.