Subject Areas : Journal of Optoelectronical Nanostructures

Maryam Shirkavand ¹ , Mohammad Bavir ² , Ali Fattah ³ , Hamid Reza Alaei ⁴ , Mohammad Hossein Tayarani Najaran ⁵

1 - Physics Dept, Khayyam University, Mashhad, Iran
2 - Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, Shahab Danesh University, Qom, Iran
3 - Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Robotic, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran
4 - Faculty of Physics, IAU Varamin-pishva Branch, Tehran, Iran
5 - Faculty of Physics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2018-02-19 Accepted : 2018-05-02 Published : 2018-01-01

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