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ArticleCommunications materials2025

Efficient single-photon emission via quantum-confined charge funneling to quantum dots.

Sanghyeok Park, Khalifa M Azizur-Rahman, Darryl Shima, Ganesh Balakrishnan, Jaeyeon Yu, Hyunseung Jung, Jasmine J Mah, Samuel Prescott, Pingping Chen, Sadhvikas Addamane and 6 more

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16 authors.

Sanghyeok ParkSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Khalifa M Azizur-RahmanSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4101-5152
Darryl ShimaCenter for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Ganesh BalakrishnanCenter for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Jaeyeon YuSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Hyunseung JungSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Jasmine J MahSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.ORCID 0009-0008-4847-1529
Samuel PrescottElectronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0009-0003-5256-3075
Pingping ChenCenter for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Sadhvikas AddamaneSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Douglas PeteSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Andrew MounceSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8115-2764
Ting Shan LukSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.
Prasad P IyerSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6898-3619
Igal BrenerSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2139-5182
Oleg MitrofanovElectronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3510-2675

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Abstract

Quantum light sources, particularly single-photon emitters (SPEs), are critical for quantum communications and computing. Among them, III-V semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have demonstrated superior SPE metrics, including near-unity brightness, high photon purity, and indistinguishability, making them especially suitable for quantum applications. However, their overall quantum efficiency-determined by a product of the internal, excitation, and outcoupling efficiencies-remains limited, primarily due to low (typically below 0.1%) excitation efficiency. To mitigate the low efficiency under non-resonant pumping, here we realize liquid droplet etched GaAs QDs in a microscale 3D AlGaAs charge-carrier funnel. The funnel channels charge carriers to the QD and enhances the overall emission efficiency by over one order of magnitude while preserving the SPE behavior. We reveal that a modified energy landscape around the QD leads to the excitation efficiency improvement. These energy landscape-modified QDs can be operated with optical excitation up to 10 μm away, raising the promise of efficient electrically driven QD SPEs for quantum information systems.

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Quantum dotsQuantum optics

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PMID41450902
PMCPMC12727503

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