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Author contribution statement
FR Talenti: conceptualization, theoretical modelling and simulations, design, experiments, writing; L Lovisolo: development of the technology, fabrication, design, experiments, writing; A Gerini: design, fabrication, writing; H Peng: conceptualization; P Parra- Rivas, T Hansson, Y Sun: theory and simulations; C Alonso- Ramos: fabrication and development of the technology; M Morassi, A Lemaître: AlGaAs epitaxial growth; A Harouri: wafer bonding; C Koos: project administration, funding acquisition, supervision; S Wabnitz: theory, project administration, funding acquisition, supervision, writing; L Vivien: conceptualization, development of the technology, fabrication, supervision; G Leo: project administration, funding acquisition, supervision, writing.
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