%0 Journal Article
%T Top-down fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures for deterministic coupling to single quantum emitters
%A Wolfgang Pfaff
%A Arthur Vos
%A Ronald Hanson
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1063/1.4774240
%X Metal nanostructures can be used to harvest and guide the emission of single photon emitters on-chip via surface plasmon polaritons. In order to develop and characterize photonic devices based on emitter-plasmon hybrid structures a deterministic and scalable fabrication method for such structures is desirable. Here we demonstrate deterministic and scalable top-down fabrication of metal wires onto preselected nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamonds using clean room nano-fabrication methods. We observe a life-time reduction of the emitter emission that is consistent with earlier proof-of-principle experiments that used non-deterministic fabrication methods. This result indicates that top-down fabrication is a promising technique for processing future devices featuring single photon emitters and plasmonic nanostructures.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1939v1