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Mujtaba Ikram1 \* and Muhammad Umer Farooq2

1 Department of Physics, Government College University (GCU), Lahore, Pakistan

2 Department of Physics, University of Education, Faisalabad Campus, Faisalabad, Pakistan

\*Address all correspondence to: dr.mujtabaikram@gcu.edu.pk

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