Abstract
We show that the epitaxial growth of thin layers of AlGaAs on Ge and Si substrates allows to obtain single photon sources by exploiting the sparse and unintentional contamination with acceptors of the AlGaAs. Very bright and sharp single photoluminescence lines are observed in confocal microscopy. These lines behave very much as single excitons in quantum dots, but their implementation is by far much easier, since it does not require 3D nucleation. The photon antibunching is demonstrated by time resolved Hanbury Brown and Twiss measurements.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 172105 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 101 |
Issue number | 17 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Oct 2012 |
Externally published | Yes |