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High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Single-Photon Detector Based on Lanthanum and Cerium Hexaborides

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A design for a high-efficiency single-photon detector based on lanthanum and cerium hexaborides, which operates from the infrared to ultraviolet spectral ranges, is suggested. The results of computer simulations of heat transfer in the sensitive element of the detector upon the absorption of photons with energies of 0.5–4.13 eV are presented. To attain a high efficiency of the system of photon detection in the wavelength range from near infrared to ultraviolet, lanthanum hexaboride is proposed as the absorber and heat-sink material in the sensitive element. It is shown that a sensitive element of both single- and three-layer design made entirely of hexaborides will possess a gigahertz counting rate and a detection efficiency exceeding 90%.

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This study was supported by the State Committee on Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia, project no. 18T-2F134.

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  1. Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, 0203, Ashtarak-2, Armenia

    A. S. Kuzanyan, A. A. Kuzanyan & V. R. Nikoghosyan

  2. Ioffe Institute, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    V. N. Gurin & M. P. Volkov

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Kuzanyan, A.S., Kuzanyan, A.A., Gurin, V.N. et al. High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Single-Photon Detector Based on Lanthanum and Cerium Hexaborides. Semiconductors 53, 682–685 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782619050130

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