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High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
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Retraction: Quasi-zero stiffness resonators: Breaking low-frequency sound absorption limits [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
Chao Shen1, Tianquan Tang2, Yu Liu3
1School of Chemical Engineering and Energy Technology, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|February 2, 2026
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