Fluctuation Mechanisms in Superconductors: Nanowire Single-Photon Counters, Enabled by Effective Top-Down Manufacturing (Hardcover, 2016)

Preface - Vortex-Fluctuation and Single-Photon Detection.- Introduction.- Part I: Nanoscale Manufacturing Developments.- Considerations for Nanoscale Manufacturing.- Superconducting Thin-Film Preparation.- Nanoscale-Precise Coordinate System: Scalable, GDSII-Design.- Thin-Film Structuring.- Device Manufacturing.- Proof of Principle of the Above Described Approach.- Part II: Nanoscaled Superconductivity and its Application in Single-Photon Detectors.- Motivation for Part II.- Metallic and Superconducting States.- Fluctuation Mechanisms in Superconductors.- Static Electronic Transport Measurements.- Theoretical Models of Current-Induced Fluctuations.- Time-Resolved Photon- and Fluctuation Detection.- Concluding Remarks and Recent Nanowire Developments.