Non-Blinking Single-Photon Generation with Anisotropic Colloidal Nanocrystals: Towards Room-Temperature, Efficient, Colloidal Quantum Sources

Pisanello F; Lemenager G; Martiradonna L; Carbone L; Vezzoli S; Desfonds P; Cozzoli PD; Hermier JP; Giacobino E; Cingolani R; De Vittorio M; Bramati A

Advanced Materials, Vol.25, No.14, 1974-1980, 2013

DOI10.1002/adma.201203171 Export Citation

Non-Blinking Single-Photon Generation with Anisotropic Colloidal Nanocrystals: Towards Room-Temperature, Efficient, Colloidal Quantum Sources

Pisanello F, Lemenager G, Martiradonna L, Carbone L, Vezzoli S, Desfonds P, Cozzoli PD, Hermier JP, Giacobino E, Cingolani R, De Vittorio M, Bramati A

Blinking and single-photon emission can be tailored in CdSe/CdS core/shell colloidal dot-in-rods. By increasing the shell thickness it is possible to obtain almost non-blinking nanocrystals, while the shell length can be used to control single-photon emission probability.

Keywords:blinking;single-photon sources;quantum dots;nanocrystals;quantum light