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Fig. 1: Simulation of cooling response times.
Fig. 2: Photoluminescence spectra.

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All data are available from the corresponding author(s) upon reasonable request.

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Acknowledgements

We thank B. Huang from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for constructive discussions and help with the thermal analysis and modelling.

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  1. State Key laboratory of Superlattices and Microsctructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

    Jun Zhang

  2. School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Dehui Li

  3. Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Qihua Xiong

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J.Z. and D.L. further analysed previous data and conducted the simulation. All authors prepared and wrote this reply.

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Zhang, J., Li, D. & Xiong, Q. Reply to: Can lasers really refrigerate CdS nanobelts?. Nature 570, E62–E64 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1270-8

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