Superconducting Optical Detectors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 2944
Special Issue Editors
Interests: superconducting devices; photodetectors; nanostructured materials; nanostructured and microstructured superconductors; high temperature superconductors
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Interests: superconducting; hybrid-superconducting materials and devices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The special properties of superconductors provide a key opportunity to produce optical and photonic detectors of very high sensibilities that are difficult to obtain by other means. This is becoming increasingly relevant due to emerging applications like THz detectors, photon-counting sensors, and quantum-computing photonic setups, among others. It is also being fostered by new possibilities of custom-tuning the superconducting characteristics using improved micro- and nano-structuration, or using novel superconductors of high and low critical temperatures.
This Special Issue is devoted to the development, testing, and modeling of superconducting optical and photonic detectors and also to the study of superconducting materials custom optimized for such devices.
Topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
- Transition edge superconducting bolometers
- Hot electron superconducting bolometers
- Superconducting optical detectors based on tunnel junctions and arrays
- SQUID-based optical detectors
- Kinetic inductance detectors
- Single-photon and photon-counting superconducting detectors
- Superconducting optical sensors for astronomy and space-based applications
- THz superconducting detectors
- Micro and nanostructure optimization of superconductors for optical sensing
- New superconducting or hybrid superconducting materials for optical sensing
Dr. M.V. Ramallo
Dr. José Lorenzo Castaño Verde
Guest Editors
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