Self-heating hotspots in superconducting nanowires cooled by phonon black-body radiation

Unlocking the ultimate potential of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors requires engineering their thermal properties. Here, the authors improve our understanding of heat flow in these devices and suggest routes to improved performance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrew Dane, Jason Allmaras, Di Zhu, Murat Onen, Marco Colangelo, Reza Baghdadi, Jean-Luc Tambasco, Yukimi Morimoto, Ignacio Estay Forno, Ilya Charaev, Qingyuan Zhao, Mikhail Skvortsov, Alexander Kozorezov, Karl K. Berggren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32719-w