Quasiparticle energy relaxation in superconducting tunnel junctions used as photon detectors

Poelaert, A. and Golubov, A. and Peacock, A. and Hartog den, R. and Rogalla, H. (2000) Quasiparticle energy relaxation in superconducting tunnel junctions used as photon detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 444 (1-2). pp. 55-58. ISSN 0168-9002

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Abstract:	We exploit the results of recent work (Poelaert, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Twente, 1999) showing that energetic quasiparticles in a superconductor relax to an energy, called balance energy, larger than the superconducting energy gap, despite of the large density of states available at the gap. This feature may have a major impact on the performance of superconducting tunnel junctions used as photon detectors. We show how the balance energy and the parameters for photon detection are sensitive to the superconducting proximity effect. In particular, we show that the balance energy also exists for non-proximized structures, obeying the BCS theory.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2000 Elsevier Science
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Low Temperatures - Biomagnetism (LT)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/58984
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(99)01327-3
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