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Varrla Eswaraiah1, Venkataraman Sankaranarayanan, Sundara Ramaprabhu

  • 1Alternative Energy and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Nanofunctional Materials Technology Center (NFMTC), Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600036, India.

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|October 11, 2011
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