The dynamic instability of the moving vortex lattice at high driving currents in NbN/CuNi-based and NbN
nanostripes designed for optical detection has been studied. By applying the model proposed by Larkin and
Ovchinnikov [Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, 1915 (1975)], from the critical velocity v
∗ for the occurrence of the
instability, it was possible to estimate the values of the quasiparticle relaxation times τE. The results show that
the NbN/CuNi-based devices are characterized by shorter values of τE compared to that of NbN
We present measurements of ferromagnet/superconductor _NiCu/NbN_ and plain superconducting _NbN_ nanostripes with the linewidth ranging from 150 to 300 nm. The NiCu _3 nm_/NbN _8 nm_bilayers, as compared to NbN _8 nm_, showed a up to six times increase in their critical current density, reaching at 4.2 K the values of 5.5 MAcm2 for a 150 nm wide nanostripe meander and 12.1 MAcm2 for a 300 nm one. We also observed six-time sensitivity enhancement when the 150 nm wide NiCu/NbN nanostripe was used as an optical detector. The strong critical current enhancement is explained by the vortex pinning strength and density increase in NiCu/NbN bilayers and confirmed by approximately tenfold increase in the vortex polarizability facto
The phenomenon of dark counts in nanostripes of different superconductor systems such as high-temperature superconducting YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x and superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids consisting of either NbN/NiCu or YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7x /L 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3 bilayers have been investigated. For NbN/NiCu the rate of dark-count transients have been reduced with respect to pure NbN nanostripes and the events were dominated by a single vortex entry from the edge of the stripe. In the case of nanostripes based on YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x , we have found that thermal activation of vortices was also, apparently, responsible for triggering dark-count signals.
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