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Masers made easy

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The technological potential of masers — the microwave equivalents of lasers — has been thwarted by their impractical operating conditions. A solid-state maser that works at room temperature may change that. See Letter p.353

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Figure 1: Pumping masers.

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  1. Aharon Blank is in the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.,

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Blank, A. Masers made easy. Nature 488, 285–286 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/488285a

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