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Dongsoo Lee1, Lutfi Oksuz, Noah Hershkowitz

  • 1Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.

Physical Review Letters
|November 13, 2007
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