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Yuharu Shinki1, Kyohei Shibata2, Mohamed Mansour3,4

  • 1Graduate School of Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan. yuharu.917@gmail.com.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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