The ability to generate single photons is not only an ubiquitous tool for scientific exploration with applications ranging from spectroscopy and metrology 1,2 to quantum computing 3 , but also an important proof of the underlying quantum nature of a physical process 4 . In the microwave regime, emission of anti-bunched radiation has so far relied on coherent control of Josephson qubits 5-8 , where precisely calibrated microwave pulses are needed, and the achievable bandwidth is limited by the anharmonicity of the qubit. Here, we demonstrate the operation of a bright on-demand source of quantum microwave radiation capable of emitting anti-bunched photons based on inelastic Cooper pair tunneling and driven by a simple DC voltage bias. It is characterized by its normalized second order correlation function of g (2) (0) ≈ 0.43 corresponding to anti-bunching in the single photon regime. Our source can be triggered and its emission rate is tunable in situ exceeding rates obtained with current microwave single photon sources by more than one order of magnitude.

High density self-assembled platinum nanodots are elaborated using a radio frequence sputtering technique and embedded in memory structures. Electronic microscopy methods are used to characterize the morphology. Scanning electron microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy observations allow quantification of the density (>3×1012cm−2) and size (2–3nm) of the nanocrystals, whereas their crystallinity is investigated using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. Then, capacitance-voltage sweep measurements give excellent memory characteristics with a 7.1V maximal memory window. Promising retention performances and an estimation of the number of electrons stored in the metallic nanodots are also given in this paper.