[HTML][HTML] Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: A perspective on evolution, state-of-the-art, future developments, and applications

I Esmaeil Zadeh, J Chang, JWN Los, S Gyger… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Two decades after their demonstration, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
(SNSPDs) have become indispensable tools for quantum photonics as well as for many …

Superconducting nano-strip particle detectors

R Cristiano, M Ejrnaes, A Casaburi… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review progress in the development and applications of superconducting nano-strip
particle detectors. Particle detectors based on superconducting nano-strips stem from the …

High-timing-precision detection of single X-ray photons by superconducting nanowires

S Guo, J Tan, H Zhang, J Wang, T Ji… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Precisely acquiring the timing information of individual X-ray photons is important in both
fundamental research and practical applications. The timing precision of commonly used X …

Temporal and photon number resolution of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

J **e, H Zhang - Applied Physics B, 2024 - Springer
Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SNSPDs) are promising
technologies with good comprehensive performance, especially their excellent temporal …

An ultra-fast superconducting Nb nanowire single-photon detector for soft x-rays

K Inderbitzin, A Engel, A Schilling, K Il'in… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Although superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are well studied
regarding the detection of infrared/optical photons and keV-molecules, no studies on …

Soft X-ray single-photon detection with superconducting tantalum nitride and niobium nanowires

K Inderbitzin, A Engel, A Schilling - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have fabricated ultrafast dark count-free soft X-ray single-photon detectors (X-SNSPDs)
from TaN with various conduction path widths, and we compare their properties with …

[HTML][HTML] Superconducting single X-ray photon detector based on W0. 8Si0. 2

X Zhang, Q Wang, A Schilling - AIP Advances, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We fabricated a superconducting single X-ray photon detector based on W 0.8 Si 0.2, and
we characterized its basic detection performance for keV-photons at different temperatures …

Superconducting Nanowire Detection of Neutral Atoms and Molecules via Their Internal and Kinetic Energy in the eV Range

M Strauß, R Gourgues, MFX Mauser… - Advanced Physics …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Superconducting nanowires are widely recognized as exceptional sensors in photonics,
information processing, and astronomy. Even a single infrared photon can break Cooper …

X-ray induced secondary particle counting with thin NbTiN nanowire superconducting detector

A Branny, P Didier, J Zichi, IE Zadeh… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We characterized the performance of abiased superconducting nanowire to detect X-ray
photons. The device, made of a 10 nm thin NbTiN film and fabricated on a dielectric …

Waveguide Integrated Superconducting Single-Photon Detector For Photonic And Ion Quantum Processors And Neuromorphic Computing

VV Kovalyuk, IO Venediktov, KO Sedykh… - Radiophysics and …, 2024 - Springer
We consider superconducting single-photon detectors, which are the key element of
quantum optical technologies due to their unique characteristics not available in other …