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Nature Research, Scientific Reports, 1(3), 2013

DOI: 10.1038/srep02150

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Ultrafast single photon emitting quantum photonic structures based on a nano-obelisk

Journal article published in 2013 by Je-Hyung Kim ORCID, Young-Ho Ko, Su-Hyun Gong, Suk-Min Ko, Yong-Hoon Cho
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

A key issue in a single photon source is fast and efficient generation of a single photon flux with high light extraction efficiency. Significant progress toward high-efficiency single photon sources has been demonstrated by semiconductor quantum dots, especially using narrow bandgap materials. Meanwhile, there are many obstacles, which restrict the use of wide bandgap semiconductor quantum dots as practical single photon sources in ultraviolet-visible region, despite offering free space communication and miniaturized quantum information circuits. Here we demonstrate a single InGaN quantum dot embedded in an obelisk-shaped GaN nanostructure. The nano-obelisk plays an important role in eliminating dislocations, increasing light extraction, and minimizing a built-in electric field. Based on the nano-obelisks, we observed nonconventional narrow quantum dot emission and positive biexciton binding energy, which are signatures of negligible built-in field in single InGaN quantum dots. This results in efficient and ultrafast single photon generation in the violet color region.