Single photon sources. A review. Part 3

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The article continues the review of single photon sources while considering various methods for the single photon sources (SPS) development. Earlier, the first part of the review (Photonics Russia. 2024; 18(5): 376–396) discussed the requirements for single-photon sources and their characterization criteria, described the single-ion and single-atom-based single-photon sources. The SPSs based on the quantum dots and color centers in the crystals were considered in the second part of the review (Photonics Russia. 2024; 18(8): 610–620). The third part considers the single-photon sources based on the carbon nanotubes and their defects (defect engineering in the nanotubes), on nanocrystals and layered nanocrystals.

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V. G. Krishtop

Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials RAS; JSC “InfoTeСS”; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

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Email: vladimir.krishtop@infotecs.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6063-2657
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region; Moscow; Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region

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2. Fig. 13. Schematic models of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes [141]

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3. Fig. 14. Nanotubes with various chirality [142, 143]

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4. Fig. 15. Recombination of an exciton at a zero-dimentional state and recombination of two excitons with the single photon emission [145, 146]

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5. Fig. 16. Stone-Wales defect [148] and elbow defect [149]; bamboo-like structures [150]

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6. Fig. 17. Hybridization of atomic orbitals of carbon [150]

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7. Fig. 18. Defects of unsaturated (dangling) bonds. Various configurations of nitrogen-carbon compounds in the graphene lattice (gray circles – carbon atoms; blue circles – nitrogen atoms; red circles – oxygen atoms; white circles – hydrogen atoms (source: Rusgraphen, rusgraphen.ru)

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8. Fig. 19. Optical resonator cavity for quantum networks based on silicon doped with the erbium atoms: instead of the mirrors, the resonator uses a regular structure of nanometer-sized holes in the crystalline silicon; the erbium atoms placed in the silicon crystal emit at a wavelength of 1 536 nm (using such resonators, it is possible to generate single photons with the specified properties) [158, 159]

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9. Fig. 20. Single-photon emitter with the linear polarization and electrical pumping – a gallium nitride nanowire with indium gallium nitride quantum dot [160]

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10. Fig. 21. Quantum dots with a core of cadmium selenide, an interlayer of mercury sulfi de in the shell of cadmium sulfide: CdSe / HgS / CdS [165]

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11. Fig. 22. Room-temperature light emission from individual CdSe/HgS/CdS colloidal quantum dots. A time-dependent second-order photoluminescence intensity correlation function measured with low-intensity pulsed excitation, indicates a nearly ideal photon antibunching with g(2)(0) = 0.04 [165]

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