Terahertz waves: a tool for condensed matter, the life sciences and astronomy

Y Kawano - Contemporary Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In the wide range of the electromagnetic wave spectrum, the terahertz (THz) frequency
region has for a long time been an unexplored region and its technological development …

Reset dynamics and latching in niobium superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

AJ Annunziata, O Quaranta, DF Santavicca… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We study the reset dynamics of niobium (Nb) superconducting nanowire single-photon
detectors (SNSPDs) using experimental measurements and numerical simulations. The …

Fast and sensitive terahertz direct detector based on superconducting antenna-coupled hot electron bolometer

S Seliverstov, S Maslennikov… - IEEE Transactions …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We characterize superconducting antenna-coupled hot-electron bolometers for direct
detection of terahertz radiation operating at a temperature of 9.0 K. The estimated value of …

Impedance-matched low-pass stripline filters

DF Santavicca, DE Prober - Measurement Science and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We have constructed several impedance-matched low-pass filters using a stripline geometry
with a dissipative dielectric. The filters are compact, simple to construct, and operate in …

Niobium superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

AJ Annunziata, DF Santavicca… - IEEE Transactions …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the performance of superconducting nanowire photon detectors fabricated
from ultra-thin Nb. A direct comparison is made between these detectors and similar …

Nanometric CMOS-SOI-NEMS transistor for uncooled THz sensing

Y Nemirovsky, A Svetlitza, I Brouk… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports the design (electrical, mechanical, and thermal), fabrication technology
by postcomplementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) nanomachining, and …

Terahertz detection mechanism and contact capacitance of individual metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes

JD Chudow, DF Santavicca, CB McKitterick… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We characterize the terahertz detection mechanism in antenna-coupled metallic single-
walled carbon nanotubes. At low temperature, 4.2 K, a peak in the low-frequency differential …

GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect transistor for tunable terahertz detection and spectroscopy with built-in signal modulation

D Suzuki, S Oda, Y Kawano - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We report gate-voltage-controlled signal modulation in terahertz (THz) spectroscopy with a
GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron gas field-effect transistor. By utilizing Landau …

Development of integrated terahertz broadband detectors utilizing superconducting hot-electron bolometers

L Liu, H Xu, RR Percy, DL Herald… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the development of terahertz broadband detectors utilizing superconducting
hot-electron bolometers and planar sinuous antennas. In this work, sinuous antennas …

Kondo effect and superconductivity in niobium with iron impurities

H Zeng, D Zhou, G Liang, R Tang, ZH Hang, Z Hu… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Kondo effect is an interesting phenomenon in quantum many-body physics. Niobium (Nb) is
a conventional superconductor important for many superconducting device applications. It …