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Published on: November 21, 2013
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Durham Smith1, Grigory Tikhomirov1
1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Abstract:
The ability to robustly and with scalability detect single photons in the visible spectrum with wavelength resolution would transform many imaging applications. Theoretical studies propose an array of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) functionalized with semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) as a physical realization of such photon sensors. In this work, we report approaches to synthesize these CNT-QD nanostructures using DNA as a smart glue to connect CNTs to QDs.
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