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Accurate modeling of light scattering from nanometer scale defects on Silicon wafers is critical for enabling increasingly shrinking semiconductor technology nodes of the future. Yet, such modeling of defect scattering remains unsolved…
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The vesiculation process was examined in the lipid-detergent solution (dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-phoshatidylcholine/octaethylleneglycol n-dodecyl ether/water), using small-angle neutron scattering experiments \cite{1}. When observing…