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Nuss, M.C., Orenstein, J. (1998). Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. In: Grüner, G. (eds) Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Spectroscopy of Solids. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0103419

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