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A new picture of inhomogeneities in nanowire superconducting single photon detectors

Rosalinda Gaudio, Koen op ‘t Hoog, Zili Zhou, Dondu Sahin, Andrea Fiore

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduced, characterized and modeled a simple nanodetector to investigate the efficiency and yield limitations of NbN superconducting single photon detectors. These crucial issues are related to the detectors strongly inhomogeneous nature at the nanoscale.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2014.fm3a.4

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