Determining the depairing current in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

We estimate the depairing current of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) by studying the dependence of the nanowires' kinetic inductance on their bias current. The kinetic inductance is determined by measuring the resonance frequency of resonator-style nanowire coplanar wa...

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Main Authors: Frasca, S., Korzh, B., Colangelo, M., Zhu, D., Lita, A. E., Allmaras, J. P., Wollman, E. E., Verma, V. B., Dane, A. E., Ramirez, E., Beyer, A. D., Nam, S. W., Kozorezov, A. G., Shaw, M. D., Berggren, K. K.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136930