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In this talk I will 1) briefly review SEDs history of the optical thin metrology project, 2) describe the principle of internal photoemission (IPE) and the applications to determine the band alignments of metal-oxide-semiconductor structures, and 3)
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J. R. Montague, M. Dalberth, J. M. Gray, D. Seghete, Kristine A. Bertness, S M. George, Victor M. Bright, Charles T. Rogers, Norman Sanford
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Nancy J. Lin, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Jirun Sun, Yifu Ding
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