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Phonon propagation:
| Title | Author | Comment | Link | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cryogenic Device Simulation with G4CMP | Michael H. Kelsey | Page 29-30, important information on phonon scattering models in low temperature silicon used for mean free path calculations | Link | Phonon, MFP, Mean free path, GEANT4 |
| Thermal Conductivity of Silicon and Germanium from 3'K to the Melting Point | C. J. GLASSBRENNER AND GLEN A. SLACK | Contains a graph of thermal conductivity in silicon as a function of temperature corresponding to 200W/m*K | Link | Phonon, Thermal conductivity, Mean free path, MFP |
| Ioffe-Regel crossover for plane-wave vibrational excitations in vitreous silica | S. N. Taraskin and S. R. Elliott | Shows the Ioffel Regel crossover for SiO2 is at 1THz with a second crossover at 6THz | Link | Phonon, Ioffe-Regel |
| Attenuation of longitudonal-acoustic phonons in amorphous SiO2 at frequencies up to 440GHz | T. C. Zhu | Shows how the phonons act in silicon oxide, the graph on the first page is particularly interesting | Link | Phonon, SiO2, Acoustic, Amorphous |
| A Comprehensive Review of Heat Transfer in Thermoelectric Materials and Devices | Zhiting Tian | Includes the graph for the DOS of phonons in silicon up to 15THz | Link | Phonon, DOS, Silicon |
| Analytical Models of Phonon–Point-Defect Scattering | Ramya Gurunathan | Describes the mass order scattering of phonons in silicon and also gives a derivation for the equation linked to it | Link | Phonon, scattering |
| Measurements and simulations of athermal phonon transmission from silicon absorbers to aluminium sensors | M. Martinez | Includes several important parameters for the silicon substrate, most importantly the mass order scattering param | Link | Phonon, Mass order scattering, Silicon |
| An incoherent superconducting nanowire phonon detector revealing the controversial gate-controlled superconductivity | Labao Zhang | Detection of thermal phonons through asymetric count rates under an electric field | Link | Phonon, SNSPD, thermal phonon |
| A superconducting thermal switch with ultrahigh impedance for interfacing superconductors to semiconductors | A. N. McCaughan | SNSPD avalanche detector with WSi and secondary athermal phonon detection with 12nm insulator layer | Link | Athermal phonons, WSi, SNSPDs |
MgB2 fabrication:
| Title | Author | Comment | Link | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FACILE deposition of superconductive MgB2 thin films on substrates: A comparative investigation of electrochemical deposition and magnetron sputtering technique | N. Misra et al. | Sputtering of compacted MgB2 powder (pre-defined stichiometry, single source) | Link | Magnetron Sputtering, MgB2 |
| Fabrication of MgB2 thin film by RF magnetron sputtering | Jong-Rok Ahn, Soon-Gul Lee, Yunseok Hwang, Gun Yong Sung, Do Kyung Kim | Magnetron Sputtering with single MgB2 and dual Mg, B co-sputtering | Link | Magnetron Sputtering, MgB2 |
| Preparation of MgB2 superconducting thin films by magnetron sputteringPreparation of MgB2 superconducting thin films by magnetron sputtering | R. Mičunek et al. | Magnetron co-deposition of B and Mg to create uniform MgB precursor, annealed to MgB2 | Link | Magnetron Sputtering, MgB2, co-deposition |
| MgB2 superconducting thin films grown by magnetron sputtering | S. Ulucan, L. Ozyuzer, S. Okur | Magnetron sputtering of pre-mixed MgB2 on Mg pellets with predefined stichiometry | Link | Magnetron Sputtering, MgB2 |
| High quality MgB2 thin films in-situ grown by DC magnetron sputtering | R.Vaglio, M.G. Maglione & R. Di Capua | Magnetron sputtering of MgB2 target to create precursor film, subsequently annealed | Link | DC Magnetron sputtering, MgB2 |
| MgB2 superconducting thin films on Si and Al2O3 substrates | A Plecenik, L Satrapinsky, P Kúš, Š Gaži, Š Beňačka, I Vávra, I Kostič | Co-Evaporation and annealing of Mg and B vapors in AlO2 and Si substrates | Link | Evaporation, MgB2 |
| Low kinetic inductance superconducting MgB2 nanowires with a 130 ps relaxation time for single-photon detection application | S. Cherednichenko, N. Acharya, E. Novoselov & V. Drakinskiy | CVD ON 6H-SiC substrates | Link | CVD, Epitaxial Growth, SiC, MgB2 |
Conventional NbN/NbTiN fabrication:
| Title | Author | Comment | Link | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Development of superconducting single particle detector transition edge sensor | Carlo Pepe | Pg. 74 Interesting diagram on laser experiment, Pg. 96 new fabrication ideas for insulating layers | Link | Characterization, fabrication |
| Properties of NbxTi(1-x)N thin films deposited on 300 mm silicon wafers for upscaling superconducting digital circuits. | Daniel Pérez Lozano | Explains the stiochiometry differences between two samples and different positions within the substrate, which ok we can simulate but shouldn't be an issue | Link | |
| Superconducting properties and chemical composition of NbTiN thin films with different thickness | L. Zhang | Page 3 has the value for the NbTiN lattice constant which appears to be 0.435nm, so the so the sim should use triple that which turns out to be 1.3nm | Link | Lattice constant for NbTiN |
Electronics Design and Modeling
| Title | Author | Comment | Link | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cryogenic DC-coupled readout electronics for high-speed superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on a commercial operational amplifier | Chen Zhi-Gang et al. | Commercial SiGe Texas Instrument Amplifier | Link | SiGe, Operational Amplifier, Texas Instruments |
| OPA855 Datasheet | Texas Instruments | Good design practices and PCB layout considetrations | Link | Op Amp, SiGe, Texas Instruments |
| A superconducting nano-wire can be modeled by using SPICE | Karl K Berggren et al. | Spice simulation using multiple current/voltage sources to approximate the SNSPD | Link | Spice, Modeling, Simulation |
| Efficient simulation of Large-Scale Superconducting Nanowire Circuits | Tareq El Dandachi | B.S. Thesis at MIT. less strict approach with questionable hypothesis | Link | Thesis, Simulation, Modeling |
| Impedance-matched differential superconducting nanowire detectors | Marco Colangelo et al. | Impedance matched geometry with circular-like sensors | Link | Superconductive, Impedance, Differential Read-out |
| Design of a Specialized Low Noise Amplifier for Enhancing Non-Classicality in Quantum Applications | Ahmad Salmanogli | Non-technology specific general modeling of HEMPT in CMOS | Link | LNA, nonclassicality, HEMT, noise figure, nonlinearity |
| Cryogenic GaAs high-electron-mobility-transistor amplifier for current noise measurements | Sanghyun Lee, Masayuki Hashisaka, Takafumi Akiho, Kensuke Kobayashi, & Koji Muraki | GaAs HEMPT application on quantum sensors | Link | LNA, Gallium Arsenite, cryogenic amplifier |
| A review of GaN HEMT broadband power amplifiers | K. Husna Hamza, D. Nirmal | GaN HEMPT application on quantum sensors | Link | Gallium Nitrate, Broadband amplifier, Cryogenic electronics |
| Indium Phosphide (InP) HEMTs | ESA Collaboration | InP HEMPT application on quantum computing and sensing | Link | Indium Phosphate high bandwidth transitor |
Simulation - GEANT4 - Drude-Lorentz approximation
| Title | Author | Comment | Link | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Validation of cross sections for Monte Carlo simulation of the photoelectric effect | Min Cheol Han, Han Sung Kim, Maria Grazia Pia, Tullio Basaglia, Matej Batic, Gabriela Hoff, Chan Hyeong Kim, Paolo Saracco | [https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06514] | ionization, Sandia Table, PAI model | |
| Spectral Distribution of Atomic Oscillator Strengths | U. Fano, J. W. Cooper | https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.40.441 | ionization cross section, normalization, sum rule, PAI model | |
| Complementary Metal–Oxide–Semiconductor Compatible Deposition of Nanoscale Transition-Metal Nitride Thin Films for Plasmonic Applications | Ryan BowerDaniel A. L. LochEcaterina WareAndrey BerenovBin ZouPapken Eh. HovsepianArutiun P. EhiasarianPeter K. Petrov | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.0c10570 | NbTiN, Drude-Lorentz, dielectric | |
| An implementation of ionisation energy loss in very thin absorbers for the GEANT4 simulation package | J Apostolakis, S Giani, L Urban, M Maire, A.V Bagulya, V.M Grichine | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168900200004575 | PAI model theory, Geant4 PAI | |
| Approximation methods to calculate straggling functions | Hans Bichsel | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168900206007972 | straggling functions, ionization models | |
| Recent progress of GEANT4 electromagnetic physics for LHC and other applications | A Bagulya, J M C Brown, H Burkhardt, V Grichine, S Guatelli, S Incerti, V N Ivanchenko, O Kadri, M Karamitros, M Maire | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/898/4/042032 | Geant4, PAI model, attach models |
Theory - Time Dependent Ginsburg-Landau
| Title | Author | Comment | Link | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interacting vortex theory of two band-gap superconducting single photon detectors | Leif B., Daien H., Sathwik B., Shunshun L., Prasanna V. B., & Zubin J. | Vortex Theory on 3-Dimentional Geometries | Link | Vortex, Simulation, Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau |
| Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau framework for sample-specific simulation of superconductors for radio-frequency applications | Aiden V. Harbick & Mark K. Transtrum | Implementation of inhomogenizes and aggregates in a 3D approach | Link | Simulation, Time Dependent Ginzburg-Landau |
| Time-Dependent Ginzburg—Landau Simulations of the Critical Current in Superconducting Films and Junctions in Magnetic Fields | Alexander I. Blair & Damian P. Hampshire | Magnetic field effects inn thin films, 2-D appraoch | Link | Magnetic Filed, Thin Films |
| A new approach for numerical simulation of the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equations | Buyang Li & Zhimin Zhang | Re-composition of the TDGL equation to sum the divergent free magnetic parts in 2D | Link | Simulation, TDGL solutions, Reformalization |
| The time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation | Yair Mau Personal website | Simple code to perform TDGL calculations in 2D | Link | Programming, Code, TDGL calculations |
| pyTDGL: Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau in Python | Logan Bishop-Van Horn | Framework for 2D finite element simulation of the TDGL eqquation | Link | Simulation, 2-d, Finite element |
| Uniform regularity for a 3D time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau model in superconductivity | Jishan Fan, Bessem Samet, Yong Zhou | 3-D approach on solving the TDGL equations | Link | 3D TDGL, Simulation, Finite Element |
| Analysis of the three-dimensional time-dependent Landau-Ginzburg equation and its solutions | M Skierski, A M Grundland & J A Tuszynski | 3D solution of the TDGL using Laplace polynomial approxiamtion | Link | 3D, TDGL, Laplace, Finite Element, Simulation |
| Uniqueness of weak solutions of time-dependent 3-D Ginzburg-Landau model for superconductivity | Fan Jishan & Gao Hongjun | 3D scheme and theory for TDGL solutions | Link | 3D, TDGL, Computations, Unique Solutions |
Experimental Characterization
| Title | Author | Comment | Link | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dual-mode calorimetric superconducting nanowire single photon detectors | H.-Y. Wu, M. Besançon, J.-W. Chen, P. Chen, J.-F. Glicenstein, S.-X. Liu, Y.-J. Lu, X.-F. Navick, S. Paganis, B. Tuchming, D. Tsionou, & F.-Y. Tsai | Variable pulse height with respect to deposited energy (?) | Link | NbN, Characterization, Calorimentry |
| Jitter in photon-number-resolved detection by superconducting nanowires | M. Sidorova,T. Schapeler, A. D. Semenov, F. Schlue, M. Stefszky, B. Brecht, C. Silberhorn & T. J. Bartley | Link | Jitter, Photon Counting |
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