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2021 Silver Medal Award
AWARD CITATION
The group is recognized for exceptional scientific achievement culminating in the first demonstration of an array of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) with more than 1,000 pixels. The NIST array represents a 15X improvement in size and pixel count and over one hundred million times better noise properties than conventional arrays. Such arrays of SNSPDs are required for the most demanding applications of imaging at ultralow light levels for astronomy, deep space communications, and medical imaging. The group’s technology is already being adopted by industry.