High-temperature superconducting nanowires for photon detection
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2015

The possible use of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) for realizing superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors is a challenging, but also promising, aim because of their ultrafast electron relaxation times and high operating temperatures. The state-of-the-art HTS nanowires with a 50-nm thickness and widths down to 130 nm have been fabricated and tested under a 1550-nm wavelength laser irradiation. Experimental results presenting both the amplitude and rise times of the photoresponse signals as a function of the normalized detector bias current, measured in a wide temperature range, are discussed. The presence of two distinct regimes in the photoresponse temperature dependence is clearly evidenced, indicating that there are two different response mechanisms responsible for the HTS photoresponse mechanisms.

Nanostructures and nanowires

Yttrium barium copper oxide

Optical photoresponse

High-temperature superconductivity

Pulsed-laser deposition

Superconducting single-photon detectors

Författare

Riccardo Arpaia

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

M. Ejrnaes

Superconductors, oxides and other innovative materials and devices

L. Parlato

Superconductors, oxides and other innovative materials and devices

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

F. Tafuri

Superconductors, oxides and other innovative materials and devices

Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

R. Cristiano

Superconductors, oxides and other innovative materials and devices

D. Golubev

Aalto-Yliopisto

R. Sobolewski

University of Rochester

Instytut Technologii Elektronowej (ITE)

Thilo Bauch

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Floriana Lombardi

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

G. P. Pepe

Superconductors, oxides and other innovative materials and devices

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

0921-4534 (ISSN)

Vol. 509 16-21

Ämneskategorier

Fysik

DOI

10.1016/j.physc.2014.09.017

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