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Coating a semiconductor heterostructure post with a layer of gold enables electrical pumping of nano-sized lasers. This experimental result could dispel the common belief that metallic coatings are too lossy to make good reflectors for tiny emitters.

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Figure 1: The heart of the nanolaser.

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  1. Richard K. Chang is in the Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. richard.chang@yale.edu,

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Chang, R. Goldfinger laser. Nature Photon 1, 563–564 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.182

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