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Graphene-based Josephson junction microwave bolometer
- Source :
- Nature 586, 42 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Sensitive microwave detectors are critical instruments in radioastronomy, dark matter axion searches, and superconducting quantum information science. The conventional strategy towards higher-sensitivity bolometry is to nanofabricate an ever-smaller device to augment the thermal response. However, this direction is increasingly more difficult to obtain efficient photon coupling and maintain the material properties in a device with a large surface-to-volume ratio. Here we advance this concept to an ultimately thin bolometric sensor based on monolayer graphene. To utilize its minute electronic specific heat and thermal conductivity, we develop a superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) Josephson junction bolometer embedded in a microwave resonator of resonant frequency 7.9 GHz with over 99\% coupling efficiency. From the dependence of the Josephson switching current on the operating temperature, charge density, input power, and frequency, we demonstrate a noise equivalent power (NEP) of 7 $\times 10^{-19}$ W/Hz$^{1/2}$, corresponding to an energy resolution of one single photon at 32 GHz and reaching the fundamental limit imposed by intrinsic thermal fluctuation at 0.19 K.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Nature 586, 42 (2020)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1909.05413
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2752-4