Download or read book Influence of Material and Geometry on the Performance of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors written by Henrich, Dagmar and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors offer the capability to detect electromagnetic waves on a single photon level in a wavelength range that far exceeds that of alternative detector types. However, above a certain threshold wavelength, the efficiency of those detectors decreases stronlgy, leading to a poor performance in the far-infrared range. Influences on this threshold are studied and approaches for improvement are verified experimentally by measurement of the device performance.