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Partha Banerjee1, George Barbastathis, Myung Kim

  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Electro-Optics Program, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469, USA. partha.banerjee@notes.udayton.edu

Applied Optics
|March 3, 2011
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