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Rubber stamp for silicon photonics

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The demonstration of edge- and surface-emitting lasers made by transfer-printing epitaxial layers of compound semiconductors onto silicon substrates creates new opportunities for optoelectronics.

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Figure 1: The transfer-printing process used by Justice et al.2 to make their III–V edge-emitting lasers on silicon.

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Kelsall, R. Rubber stamp for silicon photonics. Nature Photon 6, 577–579 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.211

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