Optimizing Superconducting Thin Films for Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

MIT Materials Research Laboratory 2019 Summer Scholar Leah Borgsmiller worked on niobium-aluminum thin films for superconducting nanowire single photon detectors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Karl K. Berggren’s lab. Borgsmiller grew thin films, measured their superconducting transition temperature optimized growth conditions. Music, “Little Sunshine,” by Phil Myers, https://www.phil-myers-songbook.com/. Video, Denis Paiste, Materials Research Laboratory. #NSF-REU