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Korneeva YP, Manova NN, Dryazgov MA, Simonov NO, Zolotov PI, Korneev AA. Influence of sheet resistance and strip width on the detection efficiency saturation in micron-wide superconducting strips and large-area meanders. Supercond Sci Technol. 2021;34(8):084001.
Abstract: We report our study of detection efficiency (DE) saturation in wavelength range 400 – 1550 nm for the NbN Superconducting Microstrip Single-Photon Detectors (SMSPD) featuring the strip width up to 3 μm. We observe an expected decrease of the $DE$ saturation plateau with the increase of photon wavelength and decrease of film sheet resistance. At 1.7 K temperature DE saturation can be clearly observed at 1550 nm wavelength in strip with the width up to 2 μm when sheet resistance of the film is above 630Ω/sq. In such strips the length of the saturation plateau almost does not depend on the strip width. We used these films to make meander-shaped detectors with the light sensitive area from 20×20μm2 to a circle 50 μm in diameter. In the latter case, the detector with the strip width of 0.49 μm demonstrates saturation of DE up to 1064 nm wavelength. Although DE at 1310 and 1550 nm is not saturated, it is as high as 60%. The response time is limited by the kinetic inductance and equals to 20 ns(by 1/e decay), timing jitter is 44 ps. When coupled to multi-mode fibre large-area meanders demonstrate significantly higher dark count rate which we attribute to thermal background photons, thus advanced filtering technique would be required for practical applications.
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Simonov NO, Korneeva YP, Korneev AA, Goltsman GN. Enhance of the superconducting properties of the NbN/Au bilayer bridges. In: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Vol 1695.; 2020. 012132 (1 to 4).
Abstract: We experimentally demonstrate strong temperature dependence of the critical current of the superconducting 600-nm-wide and 5-μm-long bridge made of NbN/Au bilayer. The result is achieved due to the proximity effect realized between the highly disordered superconducting NbN layer and low resistive normal-metal Au layer.
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Florya IN, Korneeva YP, Sidorova MV, Golikov AD, Gaiduchenko IA, Fedorov GE, et al. Energy relaxtation and hot spot formation in superconducting single photon detectors SSPDs. In: EPJ Web of Conferences. Vol 103.; 2015. 10004 (1 to 2).
Abstract: We have studied the mechanism of energy relaxation and resistive state formation after absorption of a single photon for different wavelengths and materials of single photon detectors. Our results are in good agreement with the hot spot model.
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Korneeva YP, Manova NN, Florya IN, Mikhailov MY, Dobrovolskiy OV, Korneev AA, et al. Different single-photon response of wide and narrow superconducting MoxSi1−x strips. Phys Rev Applied. 2020;13(2):024011 (1 to 7).
Abstract: The photon count rate (PCR) of superconducting single-photon detectors made of MoxSi1−x films shaped as a 2-μm-wide strip and a 115-nm-wide meander strip line is studied experimentally as a function of the dc biasing current at different values of the perpendicular magnetic field. For the wide strip, a crossover current Icross is observed, below which the PCR increases with an increasing magnetic field and above which it decreases. This behavior contrasts with the narrow MoxSi1−x meander, for which no crossover current is observed, thus suggesting different photon-detection mechanisms in the wide and narrow strips. Namely, we argue that in the wide strip the absorbed photon destroys superconductivity locally via the vortex-antivortex mechanism for the emergence of resistance, while in the narrow meander superconductivity is destroyed across the whole strip line, forming a hot belt. Accordingly, the different photon-detection mechanisms associated with vortices and the hot belt determine the qualitative difference in the dependence of the PCR on the magnetic field.
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Manova NN, Simonov NO, Korneeva YP, Korneev AA. Developing of NbN films for superconducting microstrip single-photon detector. In: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Vol 1695.; 2020. 012116 (1 to 5).
Abstract: We optimized NbN films on a Si substrate with a buffer SiO2 layer to produce superconducting microstrip single-photon detectors with saturated dependence of quantum efficiency (QE) versus normalized bias current. We varied thickness of films and observed the maximum QE saturation for device based on the thinner film with the lowest ratio RS300/RS20.
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Peltonen JT, Astafiev OV, Korneeva YP, Voronov BM, Korneev AA, Charaev IM, et al. Coherent flux tunneling through NbN nanowires. Phys Rev B. 2013;88(22):220506 (1 to 5).
Abstract: We demonstrate evidence of coherent magnetic flux tunneling through superconducting nanowires patterned in a thin highly disordered NbN film. The phenomenon is revealed as a superposition of flux states in a fully metallic superconducting loop with the nanowire acting as an effective tunnel barrier for the magnetic flux, and reproducibly observed in different wires. The flux superposition achieved in the fully metallic NbN rings proves the universality of the phenomenon previously reported for InOx. We perform microwave spectroscopy and study the tunneling amplitude as a function of the wire width, compare the experimental results with theories, and estimate the parameters for existing theoretical models.
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Korneev AA, Korneeva YP, Mikhailov MY, Pershin YP, Semenov AV, Vodolazov DY, et al. Characterization of MoSi superconducting single-photon detectors in the magnetic field. IEEE Trans Appl Supercond. 2015;25(3):2200504 (1 to 4).
Abstract: We investigate the response mechanism of nanowire superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPDs) made of amorphous MoxSi1-x. We study the dependence of photon count and dark count rates on bias current in magnetic fields up to 113 mT at 1.7 K temperature. The observed behavior of photon counts is similar to the one recently observed in NbN SSPDs. Our results show that the detecting mechanism of relatively high-energy photons does not involve the vortex penetration from the edges of the film, and on the contrary, the detecting mechanism of low-energy photons probably involves the vortex penetration from the film edges.
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