HiperSNSPD - High-performance nanoscale detectors for next generation quantum optics

• Research unit: COST
• Project number: C16.0070

Key words (English)

Single-Photon Detectors; Nanoscale superconductivity; Quantum Key Distribution; Quantum Optics

Research programs (English)

COST-Action MP1403 - Nanoscale Quantum Optics

Short description (English)

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on amorphous molybdenum silicide (MoSi) have shown highly promising properties in terms of efficiency, recovery time, jitter and fabrication yield. The HiperSNSPD project will leverage from our established expertise in MoSi SNSPD fabrication to create highperformance detectors tailored for cutting-edge applications in the field of quantum key distribution, quantum optics and infrared sensing. Novel SNSPD structures will be fabricated and characterised. Fundamental studies of the physics of the detection mechanism in superconducting nanowires will be performed. This project is well integrated in the activities of the working group 1 (WG1) of the MP1403 Nanoscale Quantum Optics COST Action and already benefited from networking tools such as WG1 meetings and Short-Term Scientific Missions. Funding of this project will stimulate a deeper involvement of the applicants in the Action, and will serve as a basis for future collaborative EU project proposals in the field of SNSPDs and may also contribute to a technology transfer to the industrial partner ID Quantique SA.

Partners and International Organizations (English)

AT; BE; BA; BG; CZ; DK; EE; FI, FR; DE; EL; HU; IS; IE; IL; IT; LT; MT; NL; PL; PT; ES; SE; TR; UK; RU; UA; AM; ZA; AU; SG; IN; CO; USA; JP; CN

Abstract (English)

See short description

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: COST-DB of the State Secretariat for Education and Research Hallwylstrasse 4 CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland Tel. [phone] Swiss Project-Number: C16.0070