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

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.

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• Authors: Dagmar Henrich
• Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2013
• EAN: 9783731500926
• ISBN: 978-3-7315-0092-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 495 g
• Illustrations: graph. Darst.
• Series: Karlsruher Schriftenreihe zur Supraleitung; Karlsruher Schriftenreihe zur Supraleitung; Karlsruher Schriftenreihe zur Supraleitung / Hrsg. Prof. Dr.-Ing. M. Noe, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. M. Siegel
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous