Superconducting nanowire single - photon detectors (SNSPDs) are significantly better at photon detection efficiency (DE) compared to their semiconducting counterparts, and have enabled many breakthrough applications in quantum...
NIST scientists have devised a novel hybrid system for cooling
superconducting nanowire single - photon detectors (SNSPD)-- essential tools for many kinds of cutting - edge research — that is far smaller than those previously...
The new system also includes one of the fastest detectors available for single photon counting,
a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD).
Over the past five years, scientists have had some success with this approach, reporting that they had seen promising Majorana fermion signatures in experiments involving
superconducting nanowires.
The detectors, made of
superconducting nanowires, were 90 percent efficient, and total system efficiency was about 75 percent.
The material is a essentially a woven fabric of plastic fibres and high - temperature
superconducting nanowires.
Not exact matches
The first of the two key enabling developments is the new detector design consisting of tiny pieces of
superconducting aluminum and a golden
nanowire.
The gray wire in the middle is the
nanowire, and the green area is a strip of
superconducting aluminum.