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1 Department of Physics, University of South Africa (UNISA), Johannesburg, South Africa

2 Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

\*Address all correspondence to: diptirs@yahoo.com

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