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Kai Lu1,2, Wen Huang3, Junxiong Guo1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.

Nanoscale Research Letters
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Keywords:
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