A silicon carbide room-temperature single-photon source

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 151-156

  Castelletto, S ^a   Johnson, B C ^b,c   Ivady V ^d,e   Stavrias, N ^b   Umeda, T ^f   Gali, A ^d,g   Ohshima, T ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

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EID: 84892983842     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3806     Document Type: Article

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