과제정보
This work has been done in the frame of a scientific collaboration between the Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, and the Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon. The authors highly appreciate the Lebanese University for financial support and are thankful to Dr. Ayman Hamzawy and Dr. Abouzeid A. Thabet for their fruitful discussions.
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