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Single-photon detectors

Fast and efficient

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Scientists have developed an infrared single-photon detector that offers a record-breaking system efficiency of 93%.

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Figure 1: Scanning electron micrograph of the detector presented by Marsili et al.

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  1. Eduard Driessen is at the Institut Nanosciences et Cryogénie, CEA-Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble cedex 9, France,

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