Peer-Reviewed Journal Details
Mandatory Fields
Moroni, Stefano T.; Chung, Tung-Hsun; Juska, Gediminas; Gocalińska, Agnieszka M.; Pelucchi, Emanuele
2019
January
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
On-demand single-photons from electrically-injected site-controlled pyramidal quantum dots
Published
Optional Fields
Quantum dot MOVPE Single-photon Electrical injection Site control Light-emitting diode Device
52
4
045107
We report on the performance of electrically-injected pyramidal quantum dots (PQDs) in terms of single-photon emission. We previously presented the generation of entangled photon pairs from similarly structured devices. Here we show that it is also possible to obtain single-photons upon continuous wave excitation as well as pulsed excitation, obtaining a low g(2)(0) of 0.088 +/- 0.059, by discarding re-excitation events within a single excitation pulse by applying time-gating techniques.
BRISTOL
0022-3727
http://stacks.iop.org/0022-3727/52/i=4/a=045107
10.1088/1361-6463/aaed73
Grant Details
Science Foundation Ireland
Grant Nos. 10/IN.1/I3000, 15/IA/2864, and 12/ RC/2276.