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Mustafa H Chowdhury1, Kadir Aslan, Stuart N Malyn

  • 1Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201.

Applied Physics Letters
|September 10, 2009
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