Large ordered arrays of single photon sources based on II-VI semiconductor colloidal quantum dot

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19592-19599

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Dang, Cuong ^b   Urabe, Hayato ^a   Wang, Jing ^b   Sun, Shouheng ^b   Nurmikko, Arto ^a,b  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; DIELECTRIC ENCAPSULATION; INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS; PHOTON ANTIBUNCHING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; STRUCTURED SURFACES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 56749178902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019592     Document Type: Article

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