Feb 2, 2021 | News Articles
We present a comprehensive study of molybdenum nitride (MoN) thin film deposition using direct current reactive magnetron sputtering. We have investigated the effect of various deposition conditions on the superconducting and electrical properties of the films....
Apr 14, 2017 | News Articles
We demonstrate a scalable single-photon imager using a single continuous superconducting nanowire that is not only a single-photon detector but also functions as an efficient microwave delay line. In this context, photon-detection pulses are guided in the nanowire and...
Nov 19, 2015 | News Articles
This paper describes the construction of a cryostat and an optical system with a free-space coupling efficiency of 56.5% +/- 3.4% to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) for infrared quantum communication and spectrum analysis. A 1K pot decreases...
Oct 20, 2014 | News Articles
Congrats to Andrew Dane, Graduate Research Assistant in the QNN group, was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, class of 2014. His research topic is “Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors for High-Data-Rate Deep-Space Optical...
Oct 20, 2014 | News Articles, Our Research
[pdf] [abstract] Superconducting nanowire avalanche single-photon detectors (SNAPs) with n parallel nanowires are advantageous over single-nanowire detectors because their output signal amplitude scales linearly with n. However, the SNAP architecture has not been...