A diamond nanowire single-photon source

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 195-199

  Babinec, Thomas M ^a   Hausmann, Birgit J M ^a,b   Khan, Mughees ^a   Zhang, Yinan ^a   Maze, Jeronimo R ^a   Hemmer, Philip R ^c   Lončar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINESCENCE; NANOWIRES; NITROGEN; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; YARN; PARTICLE BEAMS;

DIAMOND CRYSTALS; DIAMOND NANOWIRES; LUMINESCENT CENTRES; NANOSTRUCTURED DIAMOND; NITROGEN VACANCIES; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; ROOM-TEMPERATURE OPERATION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

PARTICLE BEAMS; DIAMONDS;

DIAMOND; NANOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77749345658     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.6     Document Type: Article

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