Enhanced single-photon emission from a diamond-Silver aperture

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 738-743

  Choy, Jennifer T ^a   Hausmann, Birgit J M ^a   Babinec, Thomas M ^a   Bulu, Irfan ^a   Khan, Mughees ^b   Maletinsky, Patrick ^a   Yacoby, Amir ^a   Loňar, Marko ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 82455192197     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.249     Document Type: Article

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