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Progress of Interconnect Materials in the Third-generation Semiconductor and Their Low-temperature Sintering of Copper Nanoparticles

Xin KE, Bingqing XIE, Zhong WANG, Jingguo ZHANG, Jianwei WANG, Zhanrong LI, Huijun HE, Limin WANG

Journal of Inorganic Materials· Volume 39· Issue 1

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