Semiconductor Nanotechnology for Electronic and Photonic Quantum Systems
Prof. Dr. Johann Peter Reithmaier (Institut für Nanostrukturtechnologie und Analytik der Universität Kassel)

Actual nanostructure technologies allow controlling of nanoscale geometries with high precision. This enables in the meantime the realization of strongly interacting quantum systems in solid-state materials combining electronic and photonic states. Since the first realization of strongly coupled electron – photon systems on the single particle level at about one decade ago, the technology has been much advanced.
The talk will give an overview about more recent developments in electronic and photonic quantum dot systems based on different material platforms, like GaAs, InP, Si and nanocrystalline diamond heading on the exploitation of potential components for future quantum networks and information processing systems. Examples will be discussed, such as single photon emission at telecom wavelengths based on semiconductor quantum dots; optical nano-switches based on photonic crystal designs; quantum dot devices showing quantum effects at room temperature and NV color centers in nanostructured nanocrystalline diamond.