Investigation of dark count rate in NbRe microstrips for single photon detection
Journal article, 2023
Superconducting microstrip single photon detectors (SMSPDs) received great interest since they are expected to combine the excellent performance of superconducting nanostrip single photon detectors with the possibility to cover large active areas using low-cost fabrication techniques. In this work, we fabricated SMSPDs based on NbRe to investigate the role of vortices in the dark counts events in this innovative material and in devices with micrometer size. We realized devices with different layouts, namely single microstrips and pairs of parallel microstrips. The energy barriers related to the motion of single vortices or vortex-antivortex pairs, responsible of detection events, have been determined and compared with the ones of similar devices based on different materials, such as MoSi, WSi and NbN. The analysis confirms the high potential of NbRe for the realization of superconducting single photon detectors with large areas.
NbRe microstrips
superconducting microstrips single photon detectors
dark counts
Author
P. Ercolano
University of Naples Federico II
C. Cirillo
SPIN CNR Institute - Salerno
M. Ejrnaes
CNR - SuPerconducting and other INnovative materials and devices institute, Napoli
Federico Chianese
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics
D. Salvoni
Ltd Jiashan
C. Bruscino
University of Naples Federico II
R. Satariano
CNR - SuPerconducting and other INnovative materials and devices institute, Napoli
A. Cassinese
University of Naples Federico II
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
C. Attanasio
University of Salerno
G. P. Pepe
University of Naples Federico II
L. Parlato
University of Naples Federico II
Superconductor Science and Technology
0953-2048 (ISSN) 1361-6668 (eISSN)
Vol. 36 10 105011Subject Categories
Condensed Matter Physics
DOI
10.1088/1361-6668/acf24a