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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4903071
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- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- NanoNextNL
- micro- and nanotechnology program of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation
- Dutch Technology Foundation STW
- Applied Science Division of NWO
- Technology Program of the Ministry of Economic Affairs
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A superconducting thin film with uniform properties is the key to realize nanowire superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPDs) with high performance and high yield. To investigate the uniformity of NbN films, we introduce and characterize simple detectors consisting of short nanowires with length ranging from 100 nm to 15 mu m. Our nanowires, contrary to meander SSPDs, allow probing the homogeneity of NbN at the nanoscale. Experimental results, endorsed by a microscopic model, show the strongly inhomogeneous nature of NbN films on the sub-100 nm scale. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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