Subject Areas : Journal of Optoelectronical Nanostructures

sohrab Manouchehri ¹ , Javad Zahmatkesh ² , Mohammad Hassan Yousefi ³

1 - Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Shahinshahr, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Shahinshahr, Isfahan, Iran.
3 - Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Shahinshahr, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2018-05-06 Accepted : 2018-06-17 Published : 2018-06-01

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