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Invited Talk - SPIE Optics and Photonics 2021

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Patrick Parkinson

06 Aug 2021

Patrick gave a remote invited talk in the Low Dimensional Materials and Devices session of SPIE 2021, hybrid hosted in San Diego.

He spoke about “High-throughput spectroscopy of semiconductor nanowires in the presence of inhomogeneity“ including new material from group members.

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