Tantalum superconducting tunnel junctions for infrared photon counting
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Tantalum superconducting tunnel junctions for infrared photon counting
Superconducting Tunnel Junctions (STJ) are currently being developed as photon detectors for a wide range of applications. Interest comes from their ability to cumulate photon counting with chromaticity (i.e. energy resolution) from the Near InfraRed (NIR) to the X rays wavelengths and excellent quantum efficiency up to 80%. Resolving power can reach more than 10 in the visible. Our main goal i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0168-9002
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.302