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Zhen Wah Tan1, Jian-Sheng Wang, Chee Kwan Gan

  • 1Department of Physics, Cornell University, 109 Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501, United States.

Nano Letters
|December 17, 2010
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