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Is metal a friend or foe?

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A thorough study comparing the performance of more than a hundred photonic and plasmonic lasers concludes that the latter are advantageous when their cavity volumes are close to the diffraction limit.

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Figure 1: Comparing plasmonic with photonic lasers.

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    Jacob B. Khurgin

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Noginov, M., Khurgin, J. Is metal a friend or foe?. Nat. Mater. 17, 116–117 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat5065

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