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Hyperspectral Imaging as a Tool to Study Optical Anisotropy in Lanthanide-Based Molecular Single Crystals
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Reflectance anisotropy from the low-index faces of cubic media

D J Bottomley

    Optics Letters
    |October 31, 2009
    PubMed

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