{"id":207404,"date":"2025-02-28T03:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/unraveling-the-origin-of-extremely-bright-quantum-emitters"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:13:46","slug":"unraveling-the-origin-of-extremely-bright-quantum-emitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/unraveling-the-origin-of-extremely-bright-quantum-emitters","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling the origin of extremely bright quantum emitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unraveling-the-origin-of-extremely-bright-quantum-emitters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many next-generation quantum devices rely on single-photon emitters based on optically active defects in solids, known as color centers. Understanding their properties is fundamental to developing novel quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/apm\/article\/13\/2\/021119\/3337387\/Insight-into-the-energy-level-structure-and\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>APL Materials<\/i>, a multi-institutional research team led by Osaka University has sought to clarify the origin of the extremely bright color centers at the interface between <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon+dioxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon dioxide<\/a> (SiO<sub>2<\/sub>) and silicon carbide (SiC).<\/p>\n<p>Previous research has demonstrated a range of factors that can play a role in the formation of these interface color centers, including the effect of annealing after oxidation. However, the energy level structure (i.e., the electronic transitions taking place) responsible for luminescence, a crucial factor for understanding the origin of color centers, was completely unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many next-generation quantum devices rely on single-photon emitters based on optically active defects in solids, known as color centers. Understanding their properties is fundamental to developing novel quantum technologies. Now, in a study published in APL Materials, a multi-institutional research team led by Osaka University has sought to clarify the origin of the extremely bright [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}