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Chemically vapor deposited Eu 3+ :Y 2 O 3 thin films as a material platform for quantum technologies

Romain Bachelet
Ian Vickridge

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Rare earth ions hosted in solids are good candidates for quantum technologies due to their chemical stability and optical and spin transitions exhibiting long coherence lifetimes. While bulk oxide crystals are usually the preferred host material, the development of a scalable silicon-compatible thin film platform would be desirable. In this paper, we report on the growth of Y2(1-x)Eu2xO3 thin films on silicon in the full range of Eu3+ concentration by direct liquid injection Chemical Vapour Deposition. Our sub-micron polycrystalline films with a strong-(111) texture were grown for all compositions into the bixbyite cubic phase. The variation of growth rates with temperature and flow indicated that deposition occurred through a mass-transport controlled regime. Optical assessment of the Eu-doped thin films showed inhomogeneous linewidths as narrow as 50 GHz and fluorescence lifetimes of 1ms for the lowest concentrations. Finally, a spectral hole was successfully burned in a 200 nm-thin film with a 2 % Eu doping leading to a homogeneous linewidth of 11 MHz. These values are still below those reported for bulk single crystals indicating that additional decoherence mechanisms exist in such nanometric films, which might be alleviated by further improvement of the crystalline quality. Nevertheless, these results pave the way to the use of CVD-grown Eu:Y2O3 thin films as a platform for integrated quantum devices.
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hal-02913151 , version 1 (23-11-2020)

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Nao Harada, Alban Ferrier, Diana Serrano, Mauro Persechino, Emrick Briand, et al.. Chemically vapor deposited Eu 3+ :Y 2 O 3 thin films as a material platform for quantum technologies. Journal of Applied Physics, 2020, 128 (5), pp.055304. ⟨10.1063/5.0010833⟩. ⟨hal-02913151⟩
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