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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

Fabrication and test of Superconducting Single Photon Detectors

Roberto Leoni, F. Mattioli, Maria Gabriella Castellano, Sara Cibella, P. Carelli, S. Pagano, David Pérez de Lara, Mikkel Ejrnaes, M.P. Lisitskyi, E. Esposito, Roberto Cristiano, Ciro Nappi

Published Jan 5, 2006• 27 citations
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DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2005.12.054

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