Multiple intrinsically identical single-photon emitters in the solid state

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rogers, L J ^a   Jahnke, K D ^a   Teraji, T ^b   Marseglia, L ^a   Muller C ^a   Naydenov, B ^a   Schauffert, H ^a   Kranz, C ^a   Isoya, J ^c   McGuinness, L P ^a   Jelezko, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; SILICON;

OPTICAL METHOD; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SILICON; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; EXCITATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SOLID STATE;

EID: 84907379880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5739     Document Type: Article

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