Our paper Narrow optical linewidths and spin pumping on charge-tunable close-to-surface self-assembled quantum dots in an ultrathin diode has been published in Physical Review B. The paper is part of a successful collaboration with our partners at the Ruhr Universität Bochum and the University of Copenhagen. In this work, InGaAs self-assembled quantum dots are embedded into an ultrathin p-i-n-i-n diode structure allowing for the deterministic charging of the quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime. The bias voltages, and thus tunnelling currents, can be kept very small, a particular advantage of the p-i-n-i-n diode. These excellent electrical properties allowed us to demonstrate narrow optical linewidths as well as optical spin pumping on single quantum dots in this ultrathin diode structure. The structure is fully compatible with the fabrication of photonic crystals. At least the editor seems to like it: the work was highlighted as an “Editor’s Suggestion”, as was another paper (Indistinguishable and efficient single photons from a quantum dot in a planar nanobeam waveguide) just recently published as part of this collaboration!