Ultrawide‐bandgap semiconductors: research opportunities and challenges

JY Tsao, S Chowdhury, MA Hollis… - Advanced Electronic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Ultrawide‐bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors, with bandgaps significantly wider
than the 3.4 eV of GaN, represent an exciting and challenging new area of research in …

Coherent control of single electrons: a review of current progress

C Bäuerle, DC Glattli, T Meunier, F Portier… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this report we review the present state of the art of the control of propagating quantum
states at the single-electron level and its potential application to quantum information …

Strong light–matter interaction in quantum emitter/metal hybrid nanostructures

P Vasa, C Lienau - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are spatially confined electromagnetic field modes at a
metal-dielectric interface capable of generating intense near-field optical forces on ultrafast …

[HTML][HTML] Semiconductor quantum dots as an ideal source of polarization-entangled photon pairs on-demand: a review

D Huber, M Reindl, J Aberl, A Rastelli… - Journal of Optics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
More than 80 years have passed since the first publication on entangled quantum states.
Over this period, the concept of spookily interacting quantum states became an emerging …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum dot single-photon sources with ultra-low multi-photon probability

L Hanschke, KA Fischer, S Appel, D Lukin… - npj Quantum …, 2018 - nature.com
High-quality sources of single photons are of paramount importance for quantum
communication, sensing, and metrology. To these ends, resonantly excited two-level …

Room temperature solid-state quantum emitters in the telecom range

Y Zhou, Z Wang, A Rasmita, S Kim, A Berhane… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
On-demand, single-photon emitters (SPEs) play a key role across a broad range of quantum
technologies. In quantum networks and quantum key distribution protocols, where photons …

Spin–photon interface and spin-controlled photon switching in a nanobeam waveguide

A Javadi, D Ding, MH Appel, S Mahmoodian… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The spin of an electron is a promising memory state and qubit. Connecting spin states that
are spatially far apart will enable quantum nodes and quantum networks based on the …

Bright single InAsP quantum dots at telecom wavelengths in position-controlled InP nanowires: the role of the photonic waveguide

S Haffouz, KD Zeuner, D Dalacu, PJ Poole… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report on the site-selected growth of bright single InAsP quantum dots embedded within
InP photonic nanowire waveguides emitting at telecom wavelengths. We demonstrate a …

[HTML][HTML] Strain-tuning of the optical properties of semiconductor nanomaterials by integration onto piezoelectric actuators

J Martín-Sánchez, R Trotta, A Mariscal… - Semiconductor …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The tailoring of the physical properties of semiconductor nanomaterials by strain has been
gaining increasing attention over the last years for a wide range of applications such as …

Transfer-printed single-photon sources coupled to wire waveguides

R Katsumi, Y Ota, M Kakuda, S Iwamoto, Y Arakawa - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are attractive platforms to perform large-scale quantum
information processing. While highly functional PICs (eg, silicon-based photonic circuits) …