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Jun-Seob Lee1,2, Jun-Hyeong Lee2, Jun-Seok Oh1,3

  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changwon National University 51140 Changwondaehak-ro Changwon 51140 South Korea junseoblee@changwon.ac.kr.

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