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Advanced Photonics, Volume. 3, Issue 6, 065001(2021)

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Christian Schimpf^†、*, Santanu Manna^*, Saimon F. Covre da Silva, Maximilian Aigner, and Armando Rastelli

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Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Linz, Austria

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Christian Schimpf, Santanu Manna, Saimon F. Covre da Silva, Maximilian Aigner, Armando Rastelli, "Entanglement-based quantum key distribution with a blinking-free quantum dot operated at a temperature up to 20 K," Adv. Photon. 3, 065001 (2021)

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Category: Letters

Received: Aug. 31, 2021

Accepted: Nov. 26, 2021

Published Online: Dec. 20, 2021

The Author Email: Schimpf Christian (christian.schimpf@jku.at), Manna Santanu (santanu.manna@jku.at)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.3.6.065001

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