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Nature Photonics 3, 611 - 612 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.199
Quantum light: Sound tunes single-photon source
John Cunningham1
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John Cunningham is at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
e-mail: j.e.cunningham@leeds.ac.uk
Abstract
Controlling the transport of charge carriers between two semiconductor nanostructures using an acoustic wave yields a high-repetition-rate source of single photons with tunable emission energy.
