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The past decades have witnessed marked progresses on the research of interfacial science in complex systems promoted by the advances in novel experimental techniques. Despite its success in many fields, implementation of coherent…
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An innovative inverse scattering (IS) method is proposed for the quantitative imaging of pixel-sparse scatterers buried within a lossy half-space. On the one hand, such an approach leverages on the wide-band nature of ground penetrating…
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