«What makes tungsten diselenide extremely versatile is that
the color of the single photons emitted by the quantum dots is correlated with the quantum dot spin,» said first author Chitraleema Chakraborty.
A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University
of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, has successfully fabricated for the first time in the world
single -
photon sources
of SiV (silicon vacancy) centers — one
of the
color centers in diamond during the growth
of thin film diamond, which have high purity and crystalline quality — by introducing them at extremely low concentrations.
Cone cells are specialized for certain wavelengths
of light to help animals detect
color, while rods can detect even a
single photon and are specialized for low - light vision.