A research team led by Pasquale Scarlino at EPFL has built a small, tunable detector capable of sensing individual microwave ...

Blinking dots Photoluminescence image of individual quantum dots used in the experiment. Under time-dependent driving, the ...

Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have successfully created electrically defined quantum dots in zinc oxide (ZnO) heterostructures, marking a significant milestone in the development of quantum technologies ...

Accurate alignment of quantum dots with photonic components is critical for extracting the radiation emitted by the dots. In this illustration, a quantum dot centered in the optical "hotspot" of a ...

Quantum dots, semiconductor nanostructures exhibiting discrete energy levels, have emerged as quintessential quantum emitters for on‐demand single-photon generation. Their unique confinement ...

Such alignment is critical for chip-scale devices that employ the radiation emitted by quantum dots to store and transmit quantum information. For the first time, the NIST researchers achieved this ...

The rapid advancement of optoelectronic technologies has driven a surge in the development of quantum-dot-based light-emitting devices, especially ...

A compact microwave-photon detector built from a semiconductor double quantum dot and a superconducting cavity could sharpen ...

Creating and controlling quantum dots via electrical methods, is likely to lead to new frontiers in the quest to develop stable and efficient qubits. Exploring how zinc oxide can be used in ...

The structure of the zinc oxide (ZnO) device. A two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) forms at the (Mg, Zn)O/ZnO interface. By applying voltages to the gate electrodes, we can confine electrons in a ...