Influence of Material and Geometry on the Performance of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

• Tác giả: Dagmar Henrich
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3731500926
• Thông tin xuất bản: Karlsruhe : KIT Scientific Publishing, 2013
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (195 p. p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 229070

Tóm tắt

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors offer the capability to detect electromagnetic waves on a single photon level in a wavelength range that far exceeds that of alternative detector types. However, above a certain threshold wavelength, the efficiency of those detectors decreases stronlgy, leading to a poor performance in the far-infrared range. Influences on this threshold are studied and approaches for improvement are verified experimentally by measurement of the device performance.