Dear colleagues,

Semiconductor and superconductor detectors with their outstanding characteristics play a major role in particle detection. The very high sensitivity achievable with these detectors led to rapid developments in recent years, which made them very appealing from fundamental research to applied sciences. Major research fields include nuclear and particle physics, dark matter, astronomy and astrophysics, X-ray material analysis, and ion spectroscopy and biomolecule mass spectrometry. Besides these applications, the community has recently shown a growing interest in the field of quantum technologies.

Additionally, experimental requests to push the number of detectors to large numbers has led to the development of several multiplexing readout schemes, opening the way to a fast-growing sector.

This Special Issue welcomes high-quality papers reporting the latest improvements on semiconductor and superconductor-based detectors, covering diverse detection technologies and applications.

“Semiconducting and Superconducting Detectors” invites the submission of both reviews and original research articles on particle detectors made of semiconductors and/or superconductors. Topics of interest include the following:

• Low-temperature detectors (transition-edge sensors, microwave kinetic inductance detectors, silicon and germanium thermistors, etc.)
• Multiplexing scheme for reading out large arrays of particle detectors
• Low-temperature detector fabrication techniques and materials (device microfabrication, detector engineering, new materials, etc.)
• Particle detectors applied to fundamental science (neutrino and rare event searches, dark matter, astrophysics and cosmology, nuclear and particle physics, etc.)
• Superconductor detectors for quantum technologies and other frontiers
• Quantum communication and cryptography, qubits, quantum computing, quantum sensing, single-photon detection

Dr. Marco Faverzani
Dr. Elena Ferri
Guest Editors

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• Transition edge sensors
• Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MIKDs)
• Semiconducting thermistors
• Superconductor-based multiplexing schemes
• Superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)
• Detector fabrication techniques
• Superconductor detectors for quantum technologies