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- Van den Berg, J.W.G. (author) doctoral thesis 2014
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Pfaff, W. (author), Vos, A. (author), Hanson, R. (author)Metal nanostructures can be used to harvest and guide the emission of single photon emitters on-chip via surface plasmon polaritons. In order to develop and characterize photonic devices based on emitter-plasmon hybrid structures, a deterministic and scalable fabrication method for such structures is desirable. Here, we demonstrate deterministic...journal article 2013
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Bugarini, G. (author), Reimer, M.E. (author), Zwiller, V. (author)We report on the optical properties of single quantum dots in nanowires probed along orthogonal directions. We address the same quantum dot from either the nanowire side or along the nanowire axis via reflection on a micro-prism. The collected photoluminescence intensity from nanowires lying on a substrate is improved 3-fold using the prism as...journal article 2012
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Bulgarini, G. (author), Reimer, M.E. (author), Zehender, T. (author), Hocevar, M. (author), Bakkers, E.P.A.M. (author), Kouwenhoven, L.P. (author), Zwiller, V. (author)Nanowire waveguides with controlled shape are promising for engineering the collection efficiency of quantum light sources. We investigate the exciton lifetime in individual InAsP quantum dots, perfectly positioned on-axis of InP nanowire waveguides. We demonstrate control over the quantum dot spontaneous emission by varying the nanowire...journal article 2012
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Wang, J. (author), Plissard, S. (author), Hocevar, M. (author), Vu, T.T.T. (author), Zehender, T. (author), Immink, G.G.W. (author), Verheijen, M.A. (author), Haverkort, J. (author), Bakkers, E.P.A.M. (author)We investigate the growth of vertically standing [100] zincblende InP nanowire (NW) arrays on InP (100) substrates in the vapor-liquid-solid growth mode using low-pressure metal-organic vapor-phase epitaxy. Precise positioning of these NWs is demonstrated by electron beam lithography. The vertical NW yield can be controlled by different...journal article 2012
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Diedenhofen, S.L. (author), Algra, R.E. (author), Bakkers, E.P.A.M. (author), Gómez Rivas, J. (author)The propagation of light in layers of vertically aligned nanowires is determined by their unique and extreme optical properties. Depending on the nanowire filling fraction and their diameter, layers of nanowires form strongly birefringent media. This large birefringence gives rise to sharp angle dependent peaks in polarized reflection. We...journal article 2011
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Marsili, F. (author), Najafi, F. (author), Herder, C. (author), Berggren, K.K. (author)We developed an electrothermal model of NbN superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetectors (SNAPs) on sapphire substrates. SNAPs are single-photon detectors consisting of the parallel connection of N superconducting nanowires. We extrapolated the physical constants of the model from experimental data and we simulated the time evolution of the...journal article 2011
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Perinetti, U. (author)This thesis presents different optical experiments performed on semiconductor quantum dots. These structures allow to confine a small number of electrons and holes to a tiny region of space, some nm across. The aim of this work was to study the basic properties of different types of quantum dots made of various materials and with different...doctoral thesis 2011
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Rosticher, M. (author), Ladan, F.R. (author), Maneval, J.P. (author), Dorenbos, S.N. (author), Zijlstra, T. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Zwiller, V. (author), Lupa?cu, A. (author), Nogues, G. (author)We report the detection of single electrons using a Nb0.7Ti0.3N superconducting wire deposited on an oxidized silicon substrate. While it is known that this device is sensitive to single photons, we show that it also detects single electrons with kilo-electron-volt energy emitted from the cathode of a scanning electron microscope with an...journal article 2010
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Dorenbos, S.N. (author), Sasakura, H. (author), Van Kouwen, M.P. (author), Akopian, N. (author), Adachi, S. (author), Namekata, N. (author), Jo, M. (author), Motohisa, J. (author), Kobayashi, Y. (author), Tomioka, K. (author), Fukui, T. (author), Inoue, S. (author), Kumano, H. (author), Natarajan, C.M. (author), Hadfield, R.H. (author), Zijlstra, T. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Zwiller, V. (author), Suemune, I. (author)We report the experimental demonstration of single-photon and cascaded photon pair emission in the infrared, originating from a single InAsP quantum dot embedded in a standing InP nanowire. A regular array of nanowires is fabricated by epitaxial growth on an electron-beam patterned substrate. Photoluminescence spectra taken on single quantum...journal article 2010
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Van Kouwen, M.P. (author), Van Weert, M.H.M. (author), Reimer, M.E. (author), Akopian, N. (author), Perinetti, U. (author), Algra, R.E. (author), Bakkers, E.P.A.M. (author), Kouwenhoven, L.P. (author), Zwiller, V. (author)We report InP nanowire photodetectors with a single InAsP quantum dot as light absorbing element. With excitation above the InP band gap, the nanowire photodetectors are efficient (quantum efficiency of 4%). Under resonant excitation of the quantum dot, the photocurrent amplitude depends on the linear polarization direction of the incident light...journal article 2010