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The allegedly unconventional superconducting phase of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG)1 has been predicted to possess extraordinary thermal properties, as it is formed from a highly diluted electron ensemble with both a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-07 G. Di Battista , P. Seifert , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , K. C. Fong , A. Principi , D. K. Efetov

We report on noise and thermal conductance measurements taken in order to determine an upper bound on the performance of graphene as a terahertz photon detector. The main mechanism for sensitive terahertz detection in graphene is bolometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Christopher B. McKitterick , Heli Vora , Xu Du , Boris S. Karasik , Daniel E. Prober

A dual-operation mode SNSPD is proposed. In the conventional Geiger mode, the sensor operates at temperatures well below the critical temperature, Tc, working as an event counter without sensitivity to the number of photons impinging the…

In nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics experiments, calorimeters are used to measure the properties of particles with kinetic energies that range from a fraction of 1 eV to 10^20 eV or more. These properties are not necessarily…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-17 Richard Wigmans

Plasma diagnostics have a shortage of fast and sensitive calorimetric sensors that can track substrate temperature during plasma-assisted microfabrication. In this work, energy fluxes from argon and oxygen radiofrequency (RF) glow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Carles Corbella , Feng Yi , Andrei Kolmakov

Optical excitation and subsequent decay of graphene plasmons can produce a significant increase in charge-carrier temperature. An efficient method to convert this temperature elevation into a measurable electrical signal at room temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Qiushi Guo , Renwen Yu , Cheng Li , Shaofan Yuan , Bingchen Deng , F. Javier García de Abajo , Fengnian Xia

We introduce a microwave bolometer aimed at high-quantum-efficiency detection of wave packet energy within the framework of circuit quantum electrodynamics, the ultimate goal being single microwave photon detection. We measure the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 J. Govenius , R. E. Lake , K. Y. Tan , V. Pietilä , J. K. Julin , I. J. Maasilta , P. Virtanen , M. Möttönen

The Transition Edge Sensor is extremely sensitive to the change of temperature, combined with the high-Z metal of a certain thickness, it can realize the high energy resolution measurement of particles such as X-rays. X-rays with energies…

In high-sensitivity bolometers and calorimeters, the photon absorption often occurs at a finite distance from the temperature sensor to accommodate antennas or avoid the degradation of superconducting circuitry exposed to radiation. As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Caleb Fried , B. Jordan Russell , Ethan G. Arnault , Bevin Huang , Gil-Ho Lee , Dirk Englund , Erik A. Henriksen , Kin Chung Fong

The baseline energy-resolution performance for the current generation of large-mass, low-temperature calorimeters (utilizing TES and NTD sensor technologies) is $>2$ orders of magnitude worse than theoretical predictions. A detailed study…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Matt Pyle , Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano , Bernard Sadoulet

Neutrino detectors are among the largest photon detection instruments, built to capture scarce photons upon energy deposition. Many discoveries in neutrino physics, including the neutrino itself, are inseparable from the advances in photon…

We experimentally investigate and utilize electrothermal feedback in a microwave nanobolometer based on a normal-metal ($\mbox{Au}_{x}\mbox{Pd}_{1-x}$) nanowire with proximity-induced superconductivity. The feedback couples the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-21 J. Govenius , R. E. Lake , K. Y. Tan , M. Möttönen

We suggest a single-photon thermal detector based on the abrupt jump of the critical current of a temperature-biased tunnel Josephson junction formed by different superconductors, working in the dissipationless regime. The electrode with…

We theoretically investigate the temperature-to-phase conversion (TPC) process occurring in dc superconducting quantum interferometers based on superconductor--normal metal--superconductor (SNS) mesoscopic Josephson junctions. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-21 P. Virtanen , A. Ronzani , F. Giazotto

This article reviews recent research for development of sensitive graphene photon detectors in the infrared/far infrared/THz range. For this range, graphene has promising potential in thermal photon detectors. Graphene has ultra-small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Xu Du , Daniel E. Prober , Heli Vora , Chris Mckitterick

Graphene Josephson junctions (JJ) provide a promising platform for ultra-broadband quantum sensing of light owing to graphene's frequency-independent absorption, vanishing electronic heat capacity, and weak electron-phonon coupling, which…

We report on the detection of single photons with {\lambda} = 8 {\mu}m using a superconducting hot-electron microbolometer. The sensing element is a titanium transition-edge sensor with a volume ~ 0.1 {\mu}m^3 fabricated on a silicon…

Due to its exceptional electronic and thermal properties, graphene is a key material for bolometry, calorimetry, and photon detection. However, despite graphene's relatively simple electronic structure, the physical processes responsible…

Room temperature operation is mandatory for any optoelectronics technology which aims to provide low-cost compact systems for widespread applications. In recent years, an important technological effort in this direction has been made in…

A proximity-effect thermometer measures the temperature dependent critical supercurrent in a long superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) Josephson junction. Typically, the transition from the superconducting to the normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-03-29 M. Meschke , J. T. Peltonen , H. Courtois , J. P. Pekola