Single-photon emitting diode in silicon carbide

Lohrmann, A. and Iwamoto, N. and Bodrog, Zoltán and Castelletto, S. and Ohshima, T. and Gali, Ádám (2015) Single-photon emitting diode in silicon carbide. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 6. ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

Electrically driven single-photon emitting devices have immediate applications in quantum cryptography, quantum computation and single-photon metrology. Mature device fabrication protocols and the recent observations of single defect systems with quantum functionalities make silicon carbide an ideal material to build such devices. Here, we demonstrate the fabrication of bright single-photon emitting diodes. The electrically driven emitters display fully polarized output, superior photon statistics (with a count rate of >300[thinsp]kHz) and stability in both continuous and pulsed modes, all at room temperature. The atomic origin of the single-photon source is proposed. These results provide a foundation for the large scale integration of single-photon sources into a broad range of applications, such as quantum cryptography or linear optics quantum computing.

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