Diamond-based single-photon emitters

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Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Aharonovich, I ^a,b   Castelletto, S ^a,c   Simpson, D A ^a   Su, C H ^a   Greentree, A D ^a   Prawer, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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EID: 79960369012     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/74/7/076501     Document Type: Article

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