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Low-density quantum dots fire photons 3x faster, emit light up to 900 nanometers

Scientists have developed a new way to manufacture semiconductor quantum dots that emit faster ...

Local droplet etching yields more symmetric quantum dots for integrated photonics

Light-based quantum technologies, such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing, require reliable sources of individual photons and, ideally, pairs of entangled photons. Semiconductor ...