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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 963609, 8 pages
Growth of Silver Nanoparticles by DC Magnetron Sputtering
1Applied Nanotechnology Laboratory (ANT Lab), Department of Physics, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
2Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Chonburi 20131, Thailand
3Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, CHE, Ministry of Education, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
Received 13 May 2012; Accepted 27 June 2012
Academic Editor: Zhenhui Kang
Copyright © 2012 P. Asanithi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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