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Resolving surface details with reflection and fluorescence video-confocal profilometry

P A Benedetti1, D Guidarini, G Cristoforetti

  • 1IPCF-CNR, Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy. benedetti@ipcf.cnr.it

Micron (Oxford, England : 1993)
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