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Vol. 11, Issue 12, 2128 (2023)

Ultralow-filling-factor superconducting nanowire single-photon detector utilizing a 2D photonic crystal | Editors' Pick

You Xiao^{1、4、†,*}, Xiyuan Cao^2、†, Xiaoyu Liu¹, Lianxi Jia¹, Jia Huang¹, Hao Li^1、5、*, Aimin Wu^1、6、*, Zhen Wang¹, and Lixing You^1、3

Author Affiliations

¹National Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIMIT, CAS), Shanghai 200050, China

²State Key Laboratory of Dynamic Measurement Technology, School of Instrument and Electronics, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China

³Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

⁴e-mail: xiaoyou@mail.sim.ac.cn

⁵e-mail: lihao@mail.sim.ac.cn

⁶e-mail: wuaimin@mail.sim.ac.cn

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You Xiao, Xiyuan Cao, Xiaoyu Liu, Lianxi Jia, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Aimin Wu, Zhen Wang, Lixing You. Ultralow-filling-factor superconducting nanowire single-photon detector utilizing a 2D photonic crystal[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(12): 2128 Copy Citation Text

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You Xiao, Xiyuan Cao, Xiaoyu Liu, Lianxi Jia, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Aimin Wu, Zhen Wang, Lixing You. Ultralow-filling-factor superconducting nanowire single-photon detector utilizing a 2D photonic crystal[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(12): 2128

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