Mariia Sidorova earned her PhD from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2021, specializing in non-equilibrium superconductivity. Her research encompasses fluctuations and material engineering for advanced superconducting devices. Currently, she is developing novel methods to accurately characterise quantum measurements by superconducting detectors, advancing quantum sensing technologies.

Invited Presentations

2023    ‘Material Science Breakthroughs in SNSPDs’at IPS 2023, Singapore
2023    ‘Size effects and excess noise in SNSPDs’ atIEEE NAP-2023, Slovakia.
2023    ‘SNSPDs from the Perspective of Material Science’ at CMD30 FisMat, Italy.
2023    ‘Afterpulsing in SNSPDs caused by two-level defects’ at IEEE EUCAS 2023, Italy.
2022    ‘Impact of the phonon dimensionality on performance of superconducting devices’ at IEEE WOLTE15, Italy.
2021    ‘Vortex-assisted photon counts by a superconducting single-photon detector’ at NES21(virtual), Austria.
2020    ‘Physics and sources of timing jitter in photon detection by superconducting nanowires’ at IRQ School (virtual), Russia.
2019    ‘Electron-phonon interaction time in ultrathin WSi film’ at IRQ School, Russia.
2018    ‘Timing jitter in photon detection by straight superconducting nanowires: Effect of magnetic field’, at SNSPD workshop, Germany.
2016    ‘Electron-phonon interaction time inultrathin WSi film’ at SNSPD workshop, Netherlands.

Journal Papers

1.    Los, J. W. N., Mariia Sidorova, B. L. Rodriguez, Patrick Qualm, J. Chang, S. Steinhauer, V.Zwiller, and I. Esmaeil Zadeh. "High-Performance Photon Number ResolvingDetectors for 850-950 nm wavelengths." arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07265 (2024).

2.    Raupach, S. M. F., Sidorova, M., Semenov, A. D., “Photon-number enhanced afterpulsing insuperconducting nanostrip single-photon detectors”, Phys. Rev. B,108, 054507 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.054507

3.    Sidorova, M., Semenov, A.D., Hübers, H. W., Gyger, S., Steinhauer, S., “Phonon heat capacity andself-heating normal domains in NbTiN nanostrips”, Supercond. Sci.Technol., 35, 105005, (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/ac8454

4.    Sidorova, M., Semenov, A. D.,Hübers, H. W., Gyger, S., Steinhauer, S., Zhang, X., Schilling, A., “Magnetoconductanceand photoresponse properties of disordered NbTiN films”, Phys. Rev. B,104(18), 184514, (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.184514

5.    Sidorova, M., Pavlov, S. G.,Semenov, A. D., Gensch, M., Hübers, H. W., “Fiber-dispersive Ramanspectrometer with single-photon sensitivity”, Opt. Express, 29(13),20941-20951, (2021).DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.425492

6.    Semenov, A. D., Sidorova,M., Skvortsov, M. A., Kuzmin, A., Ilin, K., Siegel, M., “Localthermal fluctuations in current-carrying superconducting nanowires”, Phys.Rev. B, 102, 184508, (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.184508

‍7.     Sidorova,M., Semenov, A.D., Hübers, H.W., Ilin, K., Siegel, M., Charaev, I.,Moshkova, M., Kaurova, N., Goltsman, G.N., Zhang, X., Schilling, A., “Electronenergy relaxation in disordered superconducting NbN films”, Phys. Rev. B,102 (5), 054501, (2020).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.054501

8.     Kuzmin A., Doerner S., Sidorova M., Wuensch S., Ilin K., Siegel M., Semenov, A., “Geometricaljitter and bolometric regime in photon detection by straight superconductingnanowire,” IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., 29(5), pp.1-5, (2019). DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2019.2908132

9.     * Baeva, E.M., Sidorova M.V., Korneev A.A., Smirnov K.V., Divochy A.V., MorozovP.V., Zolotov, P.I., Vakhtomin, Y.B., Semenov, A.V., Klapwijk, T.M. andKhrapai, V.S., “Thermal properties of NbN single-photon detectors”, Phys.Rev. Appl.", 10(6), p.064063, (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.

10.06406310. Sidorova, M., Semenov, A.D., Hübers,H.-W., Kuzmin, A., Doerner, S., Ilin, K., Siegel, M., Charaev, I., Vodolazov,D., “Timing jitter in photon detection by straight superconductingnanowires: Effect of magnetic field and photon flux”, Phys. Rev. B,98 (13), 134504, (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.134504

11. Sidorova, M., Kozorezov, A.G.,Semenov, A.V., Korneeva, Yu.P., Mikhailov, M.Yu., Devizenko, A.Yu., Korneev,A.A., Chulkova, G.M., Goltsman, G.N., “Nonbolometric bottleneck inelectron-phonon relaxation in ultrathin WSi films”, Phys. Rev. B, 97(18), 184512, (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.184512

12. Sidorova M., Semenov A., Kuzmin A.,Charaev I., Doerner S., Siegel M., “Intrinsic jitter in photon detection bystraight superconducting nanowires”, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., 28(7), pp.1-4,(2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2018.2836989

13. Zhang, X., Lita, A.E., Sidorova,M., Verma, V.B., Wang, Q., Nam, S.W., Semenov, A.D., Schilling, A., “Superconductingfluctuations and characteristic time scales in amorphous WSi”, Phys.Rev. B, 97 (17), 174502, (2018).  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.174502

14. E. Baeva, M. Sidorova, A.Korneev, and G. Goltsman, “Precise measurement of the thermal conductivity ofsuperconductor”, AIP ConferenceProceedings 1936, 020003, (2018).DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5025441

15. Sidorova, M., Semenov, A.D., Hübers,H.-W., Charaev, I., Kuzmin, A., Doerner, S., Siegel, M., “Physicalmechanisms of timing jitter in photon detection by current-carryingsuperconducting nanowires”, Phys. Rev. B,96 (18), 184504, (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.184504

‍16. Zhang X., Engel A., Wang Q., Schilling A.,Semenov A., Sidorova M., Hübers, H.W., CharaevI., Ilin K. and Siegel M., “Characteristics of superconducting tungstensilicide W_x Si_1−x for single photon detection”, Phys.Rev. B, 94(17), p.174509, (2016). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.174509

17. Smirnov KV, AV Divochiy, YB Vakhtomin, MV Sidorova, UV Karpova, P. V. Morozov, V. A. Seleznev, A. N. Zotova, and D. Yu. Vodolazov, “Rise time ofvoltage pulses in NbN superconducting single photon detectors”, Applied Phys. Lett. 109 (5), 052601,(2016).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960533

18. Korneeva Yu., M.Sidorova, A Semenov, S Krasnosvobodtsev, K Mitsen, A Korneev, GChulkova, G Goltsman, “Comparison of Hot-Spot Formation in NbC and NbNSingle-Photon Detectors”, IEEE Trans. Appl.Supercond., 26 (3), 1-4, (2016).DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2016.2526009

19. Sidorova MV, AV Divochiy, YBVakhtomin, KV Smirnov, “Ultrafast superconducting single-photon detectorwith a reduced active area coupled to a tapered lensed single-mode fiber”, Journal of Nanophotonics, v.9, (2015), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.9.093051

20. Sidorova M., “Timing Jitter andElectron-Phonon Interaction in Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors(SNSPDs)”, PhD Thesis, Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.18452/22296

OSON Lab

We are a spectroscopy group in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of Nanyang Technological University.
As part of the Division of Physics and Applied Physics, we contribute to a vibrant scientific community advancing the synthesis and characterization of molecular and nanoscale materials. We have also strong ties with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, where we focus on fabrication and modeling of nanoscale devices.