A titanium-nitride near-infrared kinetic inductance photon-counting detector and its anomalous electrodynamics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Gao, J ^a   Vissers, M R ^a   Sandberg, M O ^a   Da Silva, F C S ^a   Nam, S W ^a   Pappas, D P ^a   Wisbey, D S ^b   Langman, E C ^c   Meeker, S R ^c   Mazin, B A ^c   Leduc, H G ^d   Zmuidzinas, J ^d   Irwin, K D ^a  

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

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; DECAY TIME; DENSITY-OF-STATES; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FREQUENCY SHIFT; KINETIC INDUCTANCE DETECTORS; KINETIC INDUCTANCES; LOW TEMPERATURES; NEAR INFRARED; PHOTON COUNTING; POISSON STATISTIC; PULSE RESPONSE; QUASI PARTICLES; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TIN FILMS;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PHOTONS; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

INDUCTANCE;

EID: 84867509020     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4756916     Document Type: Article

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