A gallium nitride single-photon source operating at 200K

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 887-892

  Kako, Satoshi ^a   Santori, Charles ^a,b,c   Hoshino, Katsuyuki ^a,d   Götzinger, Stephan ^b,e   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^b   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRICAL-CARRIER INJECTION; INTEGRATED OPTICAL CAVITIES; QUANTUM-INFORMATION-PROCESSING SCHEMES; THERMO-ELECTRIC COOLING;

GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33750487457     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1763     Document Type: Article

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