Status of the SIMP Project: Toward the Single Microwave Photon Detection

2020/02/14 by D. Alesini, David Alesini, D. Babusci +60
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Bolometer #Condensed matter physics #Detector #Electronic engineering #Engineering #Josephson effect #Microwave #Optics #Optoelectronics #Photodetector #Photon #Physics #Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices #Sensitivity (control systems) #Superconducting and THz Device Technology #Superconductivity #Terahertz technology and applications #Transition edge sensor #astro-ph.IM #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10909-020-02381-x

published as Journal of Low Temperature Physics (2020) 199:348-354 · 7 pages, 4 figures

openalex publication_date 2020/02/14 · arxiv created 2021/07/01 · arxiv updated 2021/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The Italian institute for nuclear physics (INFN) has financed the SIMP project (2019-2021) in order to strengthen its skills and technologies in the field of meV detectors with the ultimate aim of developing a single microwave photon detector. This goal will be pursued by improving the sensitivity and the dark count rate of two types of photodetectors: current biased Josephson Junction (JJ) for the frequency range 10-50 GHz and Transition Edge Sensor (TES) for the frequency range 30-100 GHz. Preliminary results on materials and devices characterization are presented.

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