TY  - JOUR
AU  - Inderbitzin, K.
AU  - Engel, A.
AU  - Schilling, A.
AU  - Il'in, K.
AU  - Siegel, M.
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - An ultra-fast superconducting Nb nanowire single-photon detector for soft x-rays
T2  - Appl. Phys. Lett.
VL  - 101
KW  - SSPD
KW  - SNSPD
KW  - x-ray
KW  - Nb
AB  - Although superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are well studied regarding thedetection of infrared/optical photons and keV-molecules, no studies on continuous x-ray photoncounting by thick-film detectors have been reported so far. We fabricated a 100 nm thick niobiumx-ray SNSPD (an X-SNSPD) and studied its detection capability of photons with keV-energies incontinuous mode. The detector is capable to detect photons even at reduced bias currents of 0.4%,which is in sharp contrast to optical thin-film SNSPDs. No dark counts were recorded in extendedmeasurement periods. Strikingly, the signal amplitude distribution depends significantly on the photonenergy spectrum.VC
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