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Смирнов КВ, Чулкова ГМ, Вахтомин ЮБ, Корнеев АА, Окунев ОВ, Дивочий АВ, et al. Особенности разогрева и релаксации горячих электронов О-754 в тонкопленочных cверхпроводниковых наноструктурах и 2D полупроводниковых гетероструктурах при поглощении излучения инфракрасного и терагерцового диапазонов. МПГУ; 2014.
Abstract: В монографии рассмотрены основные особенности эффекта электронного разогрева в тонких сверхпроводниковых пленках и полупроводниковых гетеропереходах, возникающего при поглощении носителями заряда излучений терагерцового и инфракрасного диапазонов.
Значительная часть монографии посвящена представлению современных достижений при использовании указанного эффекта для создания приемных устройств с рекордными характеристиками: терагерцовых гетеродинных и болометрических приемников на основе сверхпроводниковых и полупроводниковых структур; сверхпроводниковых приемников одиночных ИК фотонов. В работе также подробно рассмотрены основы современной сверхпроводниковой тонкопленочной технологии.
Монография может быть полезна студентам старших курсов, аспирантам и начинающим исследователям, работающим в области физики твердого тела, оптики, радиофизики.
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Гольцман ГН, Веревкин АА, Гершензон ЕМ, Птицина НГ, Смирнов КВ, Чулкова ГМ. Исследования процессов неупругой релаксации и примесная спектроскопия-релаксометрия в двумерном электронном газе в полупроводниковых структурах с квантовыми ямами.; 1995.
Abstract: В гетероструктурах GaAs/AlGaAs впервые прямым методом измерена температурная зависимость вpемени энеpгетической pелаксации двумерного электронного газа te(T) в широком диапазоне температур Т=1,5 – 50 К в квазиравновесных условиях. Для измерений использовался высокочувствительный спектрометр миллиметрового диапазона волн с высоким временным разрешением, который позволял измерять релаксационные времена до 150 пс с погрешностью не более 20%. Верхний предел температуры определялся временным разрешением спектрометра. Исследования проводились на высококачественных образцах с поверхностной концентрацией носителей ns = 4,2 1011 см-2 и подвижностью m = 7 105 см2В-1с-1 (при Т = 4,2К). В квазиравновесных условиях из температурной зависимости tе определен предел подвижности при низких температурах (T<4.2 K), связанный с рассеянием на пьезоакустическом потенциале, получено время неупругой релаксации, связанное с рассеянием на деформационном потенциале (15 K25 K), получено характерное время испускания оптического фонона (tLO>4,5пс), которое существенно превышает время сронтанного излучения оптического фонона (примерно в 30 раз), что связано с большой ролью процессов перепоглащения фононов электронами.При низких температурах проведены измерения tе в условиях сильного разогрева. Полученные значения tе и зависимость tе от температуры электронов Те совпадают с tе(Т) в квазиравновесных условиях при Т=Те. Из полученных значений tе(Те) построена зависимость мощности энергетических потерь от Те, которая хорошо согласуется с литературными данными.Начаты измерения в магнитном поле, которые показывают переспективность использованного нами метода измерений как в области слабых магнитных полей при факторе заполнения >10, так и в области сильных магнитных полей при факторе заполнения >1-2.
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Vasilev DD, Malevannaya EI, Moiseev KM, Zolotov PI, Antipov AV, Vakhtomin YB, et al. Influence of deposited material energy on superconducting properties of the WSi films. In: IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. Vol 781.; 2020. 012013 (1 to 6).
Abstract: WSi thin films have the advantages for creating SNSPDs with a large active area or array of detectors on a single substrate due to the amorphous structure. The superconducting properties of ultrathin WSi films substantially depends on their structure and thickness as the NbN films. Scientific groups investigating WSi films mainly focused only on changes of their thickness and the ratio of the components on the substrate at room temperature. This paper presents experiments to determine the effect of the bias potential on the substrate, the temperature of the substrate, and the peak power of pulsed magnetron sputtering, which is the equivalent of ionization, a tungsten target, on the surface resistance and superconducting properties of the WSi ultrathin films. The negative effect of the substrate temperature and the positive effect of the bias potential and the ionization coefficient (peak current) allow one to choose the best WSi films formation mode for SNSPD: substrate temperature 297 K, bias potential -60 V, and peak current 3.5 A.
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Kovalyuk V, Ferrari S, Kahl O, Semenov A, Lobanov Y, Shcherbatenko M, et al. Waveguide integrated superconducting single-photon detector for on-chip quantum and spectral photonic application. In: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Vol 917.; 2017. 062032.
Abstract: With use of the travelling-wave geometry approach, integrated superconductor- nanophotonic devices based on silicon nitride nanophotonic waveguide with a superconducting NbN-nanowire suited on top of the waveguide were fabricated. NbN-nanowire was operated as a single-photon counting detector with up to 92 % on-chip detection efficiency in the coherent mode, serving as a highly sensitive IR heterodyne mixer with spectral resolution (f/df) greater than 106 in C-band at 1550 nm wavelength
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Kovalyuk V, Ferrari S, Kahl O, Semenov A, Shcherbatenko M, Lobanov Y, et al. On-chip coherent detection with quantum limited sensitivity. Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):4812.
Abstract: While single photon detectors provide superior intensity sensitivity, spectral resolution is usually lost after the detection event. Yet for applications in low signal infrared spectroscopy recovering information about the photon's frequency contributions is essential. Here we use highly efficient waveguide integrated superconducting single-photon detectors for on-chip coherent detection. In a single nanophotonic device, we demonstrate both single-photon counting with up to 86% on-chip detection efficiency, as well as heterodyne coherent detection with spectral resolution f/f exceeding 10(11). By mixing a local oscillator with the single photon signal field, we observe frequency modulation at the intermediate frequency with ultra-low local oscillator power in the femto-Watt range. By optimizing the nanowire geometry and the working parameters of the detection scheme, we reach quantum-limited sensitivity. Our approach enables to realize matrix integrated heterodyne nanophotonic devices in the C-band wavelength range, for classical and quantum optics applications where single-photon counting as well as high spectral resolution are required simultaneously.
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Zolotov P, Divochiy A, Vakhtomin Y, Moshkova M, Morozov P, Seleznev V, et al. Photon-number-resolving SSPDs with system detection efficiency over 50% at telecom range. In: Proc. AIP Conf. Vol 1936.; 2018. 020019.
Abstract: We used technology of making high-efficiency superconducting single-photon detectors as a basis for improvement of photon-number-resolving devices. By adding optical cavity and using an improved NbN superconducting film, we enhanced previously reported system detection efficiency at telecom range for such detectors. Our results show that implementation of optical cavity helps to develop four-section device with quantum efficiency over 50% at 1.55 µm. Performed experimental studies of detecting multi-photon optical pulses showed irregularities over defining multi-photon through single-photon quantum efficiency.
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Vodolazov DY, Korneeva YP, Semenov AV, Korneev AA, Goltsman GN. Vortex-assisted mechanism of photon counting in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector revealed by external magnetic field. Phys Rev B. 2015;92(10):104503 (1 to 9).
Abstract: We use an external magnetic field to probe the detection mechanism of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector. We argue that the hot belt model (which assumes partial suppression of the superconducting order parameter Δ across the whole width of the superconducting nanowire after absorption of the photon) does not explain observed weak-field dependence of the photon count rate (PCR) for photons with λ=450nm and noticeable decrease of PCR (with increasing the magnetic field) in a range of the currents for photons with wavelengths λ=450–1200nm. Found experimental results for all studied wavelengths can be explained by the vortex hot spot model (which assumes partial suppression of Δ in the area with size smaller than the width of the nanowire) if one takes into account nucleation and entrance of the vortices to the photon induced hot spot and their pinning by the hot spot with relatively large size and strongly suppressed Δ.
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Baselmans JJA, Hajenius M, Gao JR, Baryshev A, Kooi J, Klapwijk TM, et al. Hot electron bolometer mixers with improved interfaces: sensitivity, LO power and stability. In: Proc. 15th Int. Symp. Space Terahertz Technol.; 2004. p. 17–24.
Abstract: We study twin slot antenna coupled NbN hot electron bolometer mixers with an improved contact structure and a small volume, ranging from 1 µm × 0.1 µm to 2 × 0.3 µm. We obtain a DSB receiver noise temperature of 900 K at 1.6 THz and 940 K at 1.9 THz. To explore the practical usability of such small HEB mixers we evaluate the LO power requirement, the sensitivity and the stability. We find that the LO power requirement of the smallest mixers is reduced to about 240 nW at the Si lens of the mixer. This value is larger than expected from the isothermal technique and the known losses in the lens by a factor of 3-3.5. The stability of these receivers is characterized using a measurement of the Allan Variance. We find an Allan time of 0.5 sec. in an 80 MHz bandwidth. A small increase in stability can be reached by using a higher bias at the expense of a significant amount of sensitivity. The stability is sufficient for spectroscopic applications in a 1 MHz bandwidth at a 1 Hz chopping frequency.
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Baeva EM, Titova NA, Kardakova AI, Piatrusha SU, Khrapai VS. Universal bottleneck for thermal relaxation in disordered metallic films. Jetp Lett. 2020;111(2):104–8.
Abstract: We study the heat relaxation in current biased metallic films in the regime of strong electron–phonon coupling. A thermal gradient in the direction normal to the film is predicted, with a spatial temperature profile determined by the temperature-dependent heat conduction. In the case of strong phonon scattering, the heat conduction occurs predominantly via the electronic system and the profile is parabolic. This regime leads to the linear dependence of the noise temperature as a function of bias voltage, in spite of the fact that all the dimensions of the film are large compared to the electron–phonon relaxation length. This is in stark contrast to the conventional scenario of relaxation limited by the electron–phonon scattering rate. A preliminary experimental study of a 200-nm-thick NbN film indicates the relevance of our model for materials used in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors.
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Kuznetsov KA, Kornienko VV, Vakhtomin YB, Pentin IV, Smirnov KV, Kitaeva GK. Generation and detection of optical-terahertz biphotons via spontaneous parametric downconversion. In: Proc. ICLO.; 2018. 303.
Abstract: We study spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) in the strongly non-degenerate regime when the idler wave hits the terahertz range. By using the hot-electron bolometer, for the first time the SPDC-generated idler-wave photons were directly detected in the terahertz frequency range. Spectrum of corresponding signal photons was measured using standard technique by the CCD camera. Possible applications of correlated optical-terahertz biphotons are discussed.
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