Citation: Mohammed Tareque Chowdhury, Md. Abdullah Zubair, Hiroaki Takeda, Kazi Md. Amjad Hussain, Md. Fakhrul Islam. Optical and structural characterization of ZnSe thin film fabricated by thermal vapour deposition technique[J]. AIMS Materials Science, 2017, 4(5): 1095-1121. doi: 10.3934/matersci.2017.5.1095
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