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Abstract - Non-Contact 3D Surface Metrology of Large Grain High Purity Niobium by
SLCM and FESEM

Z.H. Sung, P.J. Lee and D.C, Larbalestier

Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,
Florida State University, FL, 32310.

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