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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Performance of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors in strong magnetic fields

Tomas Polakovic, Volodymyr G. Yefremenko, John E. Pearson, W. Armstrong, Z.-E. Meziani, Kawtar Hafidi, Goran Tripun Karapetrov, V. Novosad

Published Mar 3, 2020• 0 citations
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