Nanocrystal fluorescence in photonic bandgap microcavities and plasmonic nanoantennas

Results are presented here towards robust room-temperature single-photon sources based on fluorescence in nanocrystals: colloidal quantum dots, color-center diamonds and doped with trivalent rare-earth ions (TR3+). We used cholesteric chiral photonic bandgap and Bragg-reflector microcavities for single emitter fluorescence enhancement. We also developed plasmonic bowtie nanoantennas and 2D-Si-photonic bandgap microcavities.