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most citedCharacteristics of superconducting tungsten silicide WxSi1-x for single photon detection

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quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

Jitter in photon-number-resolved detection by superconducting nanowires

Mariia Sidorova, Timon Schapeler, Alexej D. Semenov +5

By analyzing the physics of multi-photon absorption in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), we identify physical components of jitter. From this, we formulate…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 1 cited

Phonon heat capacity and disorder: new opportunities for performance enhancement of superconducting devices

M. Sidorova, A. D. Semenov, I. Charaev +4

We experimentally study for the first time the self-heating normal domain in magnetic field using nanowires made of granular NbTiN films with sub-10~nm thicknesses. Specifically, w…

physics.optics2023★ 7 cited

Photon-number dependent afterpulsing in superconducting nanostrip single-photon detectors

Sebastian M. F. Raupach, Mariia Sidorova, Alexej D. Semenov

Superconducting nanostrip single-photon detectors (SNSPD) are wide-spread tools in photonic quantum technologies. Here, we study afterpulsing in commercial SNSPD made of amorphous…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 14 cited

Phonon heat capacity and self-heating normal domains in NbTiN nanostrips

M. Sidorova, A. D. Semenov, H. -W. Huebers +2

Self-heating normal domains in thin superconducting NbTiN nanostrips were characterized via steady-state hysteretic current-voltage characteristics measured at different substrate…

cond-mat.supr-con2021

Magnetoconductance and photoresponse properties of disordered NbTiN films

M. Sidorova, A. Semenov, H. -W. Huebers +4

We report on the study of phonon properties and electron-phonon coupling in thin NbTiN films, which are intensively exploited in superconducting devices. Studied NbTiN films with t…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 12 cited

Local thermal fluctuations in current-carrying superconducting nanowires

Alexej D. Semenov, Mariia Sidorova, Mikhail A. Skvortsov +3

We analyze the effect of different types of fluctuations in internal electron energy on the rates of dark and photon counts in straight current-carrying superconducting nanowires.…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 51 cited

Electron energy relaxation in disordered superconducting NbN films

Mariia Sidorova, Alexej Semenov, Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers +8

We report on the inelastic-scattering rate of electrons on phonons and relaxation of electron energy studied by means of magnetoconductance, and photoresponse, respectively, in a s…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Geometrical jitter and bolometric regime in photon detection by straight superconducting nanowire

Artem Kuzmin, Steffen Doerner, Stefan Wuensch +4

We present a direct observation of the geometrical jitter in single photon detection by a straight superconducting nanowire. Differential measurement technique was applied to the 1…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 16 cited

Thermal properties of NbN single-photon detectors

E. M. Baeva, M. V. Sidorova, A. A. Korneev +9

We investigate thermal properties of a NbN single-photon detector capable of unit internal detection efficiency. Using an independent calibration of the coupling losses we determin…

physics.ins-det2018

Timing jitter in photon detection by straight superconducting nanowires: Effect of magnetic field and photon flux

Mariia Sidorova, Alexej Semenov, Heinz-Wilhelm Hubers +4

We studied the effect of the external magnetic field and photon flux on timing jitter in photon detection by straight superconducting NbN nanowires. At two wavelengths 800 and 1560…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 30 cited

Superconducting fluctuations and characteristic time scales in amorphous WSi

Xiaofu Zhang, Adriana E. Lita, Mariia Sidorova +5

We study magnitudes and temperature dependences of the electron-electron and electron-phonon interaction times which play the dominant role in the formation and relaxation of photo…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 64 cited

Physical mechanisms of timing jitter in photon detection by current carrying superconducting nanowires

Mariia Sidorova, Alexej Semenov, Heinz-Wilhelm Hubers +4

We studied timing jitter in the appearance of photon counts in meandering nanowires with different fractional amount of bends. Timing jitter, which is the probability density of th…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 68 cited

Characteristics of superconducting tungsten silicide WxSi1-x for single photon detection

X. Zhang, A. Engel, Q. Wang +7

Superconducting properties of three series of amorphous WxSi1-x films with different thickness and stoichiometry were investigated by dc transport measurements in a magnetic field…

physics.ins-det2016★ 27 cited

Non-bolometric bottleneck in electron-phonon relaxation in ultra-thin WSi film

M. Sidorova, A. Kozorezov, A. Semenov +6

We developed the model of the internal phonon bottleneck to describe the energy exchange between the acoustically soft ultrathin metal film and acoustically rigid substrate. Discri…

cond-mat.supr-con2016★ 19 cited

Rise times of voltage pulses in NbN superconducting single-photon detectors

K. V. Smirnov, A. V. Divochiy, Yu. B. Vakhtomin +6

We have found experimentally that the rise times of voltage pulses in NbN superconducting single photon detectors increase nonlinearly with increasing detector length. We fabricate…