PT Unknown AU Hu, X Dauler, EA Kerman, AJ Yang, JKW White, JE Herder, CH Berggren, KK TI Using surface plasmons to enhance the speed and efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors SE Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference PY 2009 BP 1 EP 2 DE optical antennas AB We report our design and fabrication of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors integrated with gold plasmonic nanostructures, which can enhance the absorption of TM-polarized light, and can enlarge the effective area without sacrificing detector speed. ER