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Published online 4 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030331-9
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Nano lasers grown like snowflakes
Self-assembling arrays of tiny wires could shrink information technology
Researchers have created the world's smallest lasers using the principles of snowflake growth. They are evenly spaced branches on needles made of the semiconductor zinc oxide1.
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