Bright single-photon sources in bottom-up tailored nanowires

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Reimer, Michael E ^a   Bulgarini, Gabriele ^a   Akopian, Nika ^a   Hocevar, Moïra ^a   Bavinck, Maaike Bouwes ^a   Verheijen, Marcel A ^b   Bakkers, Erik P A M ^a,b   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a   Zwiller, Val ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOFABRICATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84859193455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1746     Document Type: Article

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