This is the nanolaser equivalent of being smacked in the face with a slab of
corrugated roofing during a tornado. There’s one step in making microscopic
lasers where you have to peel away metal from much of the substrate, leaving
behind pillar-shaped lasers surrounded by small metallic patches. These
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