Photon (image)

University of Maryland

Caption

This artist's rendition depicts a single photon bursting from an organic color center, which was chemically created in a carbon semiconductor host. A new $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research at the University of Maryland on color centers in carbon nanotubes as single-photon sources.

Credit

YuHuang Wang & Mijin Kim, University of Maryland

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