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a Defect assisted low threshold gain using HgTe QDs, taken from Geiregat et al.18; b Doped Cd-based QDs enable low-threshold amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), taken from Wu et al.19; c Type II QDs showing thresholds close to 2/3 and prolonged inversion lifetimes, taken from Klimov et al.20