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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Nano-arrays of optically addressable rare-earth-doped semiconductor quantum dots for quantum computing

Aras Konjhodzic, Muhammed Aly, Deepka Chhabria, Zameer U. Hasan, Mingshaw W. Wu, Richard A. Register

Published Jun 17, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

Results have been presented on isolating rare earth atoms in small numbers in semiconductor nanoparticles so as to use their organized arrays as hardware for quantum computing. We have tailored atomic states of rare earths, fabricated nanoparticles where these atomic systems are incorporated in small numbers and have patterned arrays of nano-holes on semi-conducting and polymer surfaces to encapsulate these rare earth doped nanoparticles. Results are presented on fabrication, microscopy and spectroscopy of these structures.

DOI
10.1117/12.540923

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