Acknowledgement
The author appreciates the technical support by Fatemeh NowrouzAlizadeh and Mosayeb Dehghani, the scientific staffs of the Shiraz University laboratories at the Radiation Research Center (RRC) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, respectively.
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