[HTML][HTML] Silicon carbide color centers for quantum applications

S Castelletto, A Boretti - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicon carbide has recently surged as an alternative material for scalable and integrated
quantum photonics, as it is a host for naturally occurring color centers within its bandgap …

A review on single photon sources in silicon carbide

A Lohrmann, BC Johnson, JC McCallum… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper summarizes key findings in single-photon generation from deep level defects in
silicon carbide (SiC) and highlights the significance of these individually addressable …

Robust multicolor single photon emission from point defects in hexagonal boron nitride

TT Tran, C Elbadawi, D Totonjian, CJ Lobo, G Grosso… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging two-dimensional material for quantum
photonics owing to its large bandgap and hyperbolic properties. Here we report two …

Silicon carbide photonics bridging quantum technology

S Castelletto, A Peruzzo, C Bonato, BC Johnson… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the last two decades, bulk, homoepitaxial, and heteroepitaxial growth of silicon carbide
(SiC) has witnessed many advances, giving rise to electronic devices widely used in high …

Bright UV Single Photon Emission at Point Defects in h-BN

R Bourrellier, S Meuret, A Tararan, O Stéphan… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
To date, quantum sources in the ultraviolet (UV) spectral region have been obtained only in
semiconductor quantum dots. Color centers in wide bandgap materials may represent a …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering near-infrared single-photon emitters with optically active spins in ultrapure silicon carbide

F Fuchs, B Stender, M Trupke, D Simin, J Pflaum… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Vacancy-related centres in silicon carbide are attracting growing attention because of their
appealing optical and spin properties. These atomic-scale defects can be created using …

[HTML][HTML] Single-photon emitting diode in silicon carbide

A Lohrmann, N Iwamoto, Z Bodrog, S Castelletto… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Electrically driven single-photon emitting devices have immediate applications in quantum
cryptography, quantum computation and single-photon metrology. Mature device fabrication …

[HTML][HTML] Bright room temperature single photon source at telecom range in cubic silicon carbide

J Wang, Y Zhou, Z Wang, A Rasmita, J Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Single-photon emitters (SPEs) play an important role in a number of quantum information
tasks such as quantum key distributions. In these protocols, telecom wavelength photons are …

All-optical dc nanotesla magnetometry using silicon vacancy fine structure in isotopically purified silicon carbide

D Simin, VA Soltamov, AV Poshakinskiy, AN Anisimov… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
We uncover the fine structure of a silicon vacancy in isotopically purified silicon carbide (4H-
SiC 28) and reveal not yet considered terms in the spin Hamiltonian, originated from the …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon carbide single-photon sources: challenges and prospects

S Castelletto - Materials for Quantum Technology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The search for an ideal single-photon source (SPS) with superior emission properties is still
at the core of many research efforts in optical quantum technologies and the criteria …