Interplay between optical vortices and condensed matter

GF Quinteiro Rosen, PI Tamborenea, T Kuhn - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Interest in the multiple facets of optical vortices has flourished in the last three decades. This
review examines the basic research and applications of the interplay between optical …

A gallium nitride single-photon source operating at 200 K

S Kako, C Santori, K Hoshino, S Götzinger… - Nature materials, 2006 - nature.com
Fundamentally secure quantum cryptography has still not seen widespread application
owing to the difficulty of generating single photons on demand. Semiconductor quantum-dot …

Ultraclean single photon emission from a GaN quantum dot

M Arita, F Le Roux, MJ Holmes, S Kako, Y Arakawa - Nano letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Wide bandgap III-nitride quantum dots (QDs) are promising materials for the realization of
solid-state single-photon sources, especially operating at room temperature. However, so far …

Radiative lifetime of a single electron-hole pair in quantum dots

T Bretagnon, P Lefebvre, P Valvin, R Bardoux… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
Wurtzite Ga N∕ Al N quantum dots (QDs) are studied by time-resolved photoluminescence.
Careful measurements allow us to reach the regime of a single electron-hole pair per dot …

Polar and nonpolar GaN quantum dots

B Daudin - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Growth, structural and optical properties of GaN quantum dots are reviewed, with a special
emphasis on plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The versatility of this technique …

Ultranarrow luminescence linewidth of silicon nanocrystals and influence of matrix

I Sychugov, A Fucikova, F Pevere, Z Yang… - Acs …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The luminescence linewidth of individual silicon nanocrystals was characterized by single-
dot spectroscopy, and an ultranarrow linewidth of∼ 200 μeV at 10 K was found. This value …

Exciton and biexciton luminescence from single GaN/AlN quantum dots in nanowires

J Renard, R Songmuang, C Bougerol, B Daudin… - Nano …, 2008 - ACS Publications
We present a microphotoluminescence study of single GaN/AlN quantum dots embedded in
single nanowires. At low excitation power, single exciton lines with full width at half …

Excitons in (Al, Ga) N quantum dots and quantum wells grown on (0001)-oriented AlN templates: Emission diagrams and valence band mixings

A Ibanez, N Nikitskiy, A Zaiter, P Valvin… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The luminescence efficiency of AlxGa1− xN quantum dots (QDs) and quantum wells (QWs),
buried in AlN cladding layers and emitting in the ultraviolet range between 234 and 310 nm …

Photophysics of GaN single-photon emitters in the visible spectral range

AM Berhane, KY Jeong, C Bradac, M Walsh… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
In this work, we present a detailed photophysical analysis of recently discovered, optically
stable single-photon emitters (SPEs) in gallium nitride (GaN). Temperature-resolved …

III-nitride quantum dots as single photon emitters

MJ Holmes, M Arita, Y Arakawa - Semiconductor Science and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
III-nitride quantum dots are proving to be promising for application to single photon emitting
devices. Research around the globe is revealing several interesting properties of these …