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Prof Rob Hicken: Publications
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- Liu Y, Shelford LR, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Sakuraba Y, Oogane M, Ando Y
Optically induced magnetization dynamics and variation of damping parameter in epitaxial Co2MnSi Heusler alloy films Physics Review B 81 094402 2010 Copyright (2010) The American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Lepadatu S, Claydon JS, Kinane CJ, Charlton TR, Langridge S, Potenza A, Dhesi SS, Keatley PS, Hicken RJ, Hickey BJ, Marrows CH
Domain-wall pinning, nonadiabatic spin-transfer torque, and spin-current polarization in permalloy wires doped with vanadium Phys. Rev. B 81 020413 2010 Copyright (2010) The American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Keatley PS, Neudert A, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Imaging Collective Magnonic Modes in 2D Arrays of Magnetic Nanoelements Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 027201 2010 Copyright (2010) The American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Sharma S, Barman A, Sharma M, Shelford LR, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ
Structural and magnetic properties of electrodeposited Cobalt nanowire arrays Solid State Communications 149 1650 2009 Copyright (2009) Solid State Communications. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Keatley PS, Kruglyak VV, Neudert A, Delchini M, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Time- and vector-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements of large angle precessional reorientation in a 2×2 µm2 ferromagnet J. Appl. Phys. 105 07D308 2009 Copyright (2009) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Neudert A, Keatley PS, Kruglyak VV, McCord J, Hicken RJ
Excitation and Imaging of Precessional Modes in Soft-Magnetic Squares IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS 44 3083 2008 Copyright (2008) IEEE. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Telling ND, Keatley PS, van der Laan G, Hicken RJ, Arenholz E, Sakuraba Y, Oogane M, Ando Y, Takanashi K, Sakuma A, Miyazaki T
Evidence of local moment formation in Co-based Heusler alloys PHYS REV B 78 184438 2008 Copyright (2008) The American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Keatley PS, Kruglyak VV, Neudert A, Galaktionov EA, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Time-resolved investigation of magnetization dynamics of arrays of nonellipsoidal nanomagnets with nonuniform ground states PHYS REV B 78 214412 2008 Copyright (2008) The American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Keatley PS, Neudert A, Delchini M, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Imaging small-amplitude magnetization dynamics in a longitudinally magnetized microwire PHYSICAL REVIEW B 77 172407 2008 Copyright (2008) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Telling ND, Keatley PS, Shelford LR, Arenholz E, Laan vdG, Hicken RJ, Sakuraba Y, Tsunegi S, Oogane M, Ando Y, Takanashi K, Miyazaki T
Temperature dependence of the interface moments in Co2MnSi thin films APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 92 192503 2008 Copyright (2008) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website
- Shelford LR, Liu Y, Hicken RJ, Sakuraba Y, Oogane M, Ando Y
Magnetic second harmonic generation at the Co2MnSi/AlOx interface JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 103 7 07D720 2008 Copyright (2008) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website
- Kruglyak VV, Portnoi ME, Hicken RJ
Use of the Faraday optical transformer for ultrafast magnetization reversal of nanomagnets JOURNAL OF NANOPHOTONICS 1 013502 2007 Copyright (2007) Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers . The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Matousek P, Towrie M
Spectroscopic study of optically induced ultrafast electron dynamics in gold PHYSICAL REVIEW B 75 035410 2007 Copyright (2007) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Srivastava GP, Ali M, Hickey BJ, Pym ATG, Tanner BK
Optical excitation of a coherent transverse optical phonon in a polycrystalline Zr metal film PHYSICAL REVIEW B 76 012301 2007 Copyright (2007) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Keatley PS, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Dynamic configurational anisotropy in nanomagnets PHYSICAL REVIEW B 75 024407 2007 Copyright (2007) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Liu Y, Shelford LR, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Sakuraba Y, Oogane M, Ando Y, Miyazaki T
Ultrafast optical modification of magnetic anisotropy and stimulated precession in an epitaxial Co2MnAl thin film JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 101 09C106 2007 Copyright (2007) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website
- Keatley PS, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Acquisition of vector hysteresis loops from micro-arrays of nano-magnets JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS 306 298 2006 Copyright (2006) Elsevier B.V. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ
Magnonics: Experiment to prove the concept JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS 306 191 2006 Copyright (2006) Elsevier B.V. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ
Femtosecond ellipsometry: A new tool for the measurement of hot electron momentum relaxation times in metals SMART MATERIALS FOR RANGING SYSTEMS 226 203 2006 Copyright (2006) Lavoisier.
- Kruglyak VV, Keatley PS, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Time resolved studies of edge modes in magnetic nanoelements (invited) JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 99 08F306 2006 Copyright (2006) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Portnoi ME, Hicken RJ
Generation of femtosecond electromagnetic pulses at the nanoscale PROC. SPIE 6328 63280K 2006 Copyright (2006) SPIE. The article above may also be found on the journal's website
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ
Simple theory of hot electron dynamics observed by femtosecond ellipsometry JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 99 08P903 2006 Copyright (2006) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Telling ND, Keatley PS, Laan vdG, Hicken RJ, Arenholz E, Sakuraba Y, Oogane M, Ando Y, Miyazaki T
Interfacial structure and half-metallic ferromagnetism in Co2MnSi-based magnetic tunnel junctions PHYSICAL REVIEW B 74 224439 2006 Copyright (2006) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Telling ND, Laan vdG, Ladak S, Hicken RJ, Arenholz E
Evidence of a barrier oxidation dependence on the interfacial magnetism in Co/alumina based magnetic tunnel junctions JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 99 08E505 2006 Copyright (2006) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Barman A, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Scott J, Rahman M
Dependence of spatial coherence of coherent suppression of magnetization precession upon aspect ratio in Ni81Fe19 microdots JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 97 10A710 2005 Copyright (2005) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Keatley PS, Kruglyak VV, Barman A, Ladak S, Hicken RJ, Scott J, Rahman M
Use of microscale coplanar striplines with indium tin oxide windows in optical ferromagnetic resonance measurements JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 97 10R304 2005 Copyright (2005) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Barman A, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Picosecond magnetization dynamics in nanomagnets: Crossover to nonuniform precession PHYSICAL REVIEW B 71 220409 2005 Copyright (2005) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found be on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Ali M, Hickey BJ, Pym ATG, Tanner BK
Measurement of hot electron momentum relaxation times in metals by femtosecond ellipsometry PHYSICAL REVIEW B 71 233104 2005 Copyright (2005) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found be on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Kuchko AN, Gorobets VY
Spin waves in a periodically layered magnetic nanowire JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 98 014304 2005 Copyright (2005) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Barman A, Hicken RJ, Childress JR, Katine JA
Precessional dynamics in microarrays of nanomagnets JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 97 10A706 2005 Copyright (2005) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Ali M, Hickey BJ, Pym ATG, Tanner BK
Ultrafast third-order optical nonlinearity of noble and transition metal thin films JOURNAL OF OPTICS A-PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS 7 S235 2005 Copyright (2005) Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2008. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Ladak S, Hicken RJ
Evidence for hot electron magnetocurrent in a double barrier tunnel junction device APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 87 232504 2005 Copyright (2005) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Ladak S, Hicken RJ
Origin of large magnetocurrent in three-terminal double-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 97 104512 2005 Copyright (2005) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Roy S, Connell A, Ludwig M, Wang N, O'Donnell T, Brunet M, McCloskey P, OMathuna C, Barman A, Hicken RJ
Pulse reverse plating for integrated magnetics on Si JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS 290 1524 2005 Copyright (2005) Elsevier B.V. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Wilks R, Hicken RJ, Ali M, Hickey BJ
Ultrafast demagnetization Of Co25Ni75/Pt multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy at elevated temperatures JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 97 10A705 2005 Copyright (2005) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Barman A, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Kundrotaite A, Rahman M
Shape-dependent anisotropy and damping of picosecond magnetisation dynamics in a micron sized Ni81Fe19 element JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS 272 2121 2004 Copyright (2004) Elsevier B.V. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Barman A, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Rowe JM, Kundrotaite A, Scott J, Rahman M
Imaging the dephasing of spin wave modes in a square thin film magnetic element PHYSICAL REVIEW B 69 174426 2004 Copyright (2004) American Physical Society. The article above may also be found be on the journal's website.
- Barman A, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Scott J, Kundrotaite A, Rahman M
Dependence of anisotropy and damping on shape and aspect ratio in micron sized Ni81Fe19 elements JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 95 6998 2004 Copyright (2004) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Telling ND, Laan vdG, Ladak S, Hicken RJ
Spin polarization and barrier-oxidation effects at the Co/alumina interface in magnetic tunnel junctions APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 85 3803 2004 Copyright (2004) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Wilks R, Hicken RJ
Transient optical polarization response of aluminium at an interband transition JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER 16 4607 2004 Copyright (2004) IOP Publishing Ltd. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Wilks R, Hicken RJ, Ali M, Hickey BJ, Buchanan JDR, Pym ATG, Tanner BK
Investigation of ultrafast demagnetization and cubic optical nonlinearity of Ni in the polar geometry JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 95 7441 2004 Copyright (2004) American Institute of Physics. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Barman A, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Kundrotaite A, Rahman M
Observation of incoherent picosecond magnetisation dynamics in micron sized Ni81Fe19 elements by time resolved scanning Kerr effect microscopy IEE PROCEEDINGS-SCIENCE MEASUREMENT AND TECHNOLOGY 150 260 2003 Copyright (2003) IEE. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Barman A, Kruglyak VV, Hicken RJ, Kundrotaite A, Rahman M
Anisotropy damping and coherence of magnetization dynamics in a 10 mu m square Ni81Fe19 element APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 82 3065 3 2003 Copyright (2003) Taylor and Francis. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Hicken RJ, Barman A, Kruglyak VV, Ladak S
Optical ferromagnetic resonance studies of thin film magnetic structures JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS 36 2183 2003 Copyright (2003) IOP Publishing Ltd. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Hicken RJ
Ultrafast nanomagnets: seeing data storage in a new light PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 361 2827 2003 Copyright (2003) The Royal Society. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- Wilks R, Hughes ND, Hicken RJ
Investigation of transient linear and circular birefringence in metallic thin films JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER 15 5129 2003 Copyright (2003) IOP Publishing Ltd. The article above may also be found on the journal's website.
- N. D. Hughes and R. J. Hicken
Correlation of Magnetoresistance and Switching in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions J. Phys. D: Applied Physics 35, 3153-3160 2002.
- A. Barman, V. V. Kruglyak, R. J. Hicken, A. T. Hindmarch, M. Ali, C. H. Marrows and B. J. Hickey
Characterization of spin-valves fabricated on opaque substrates by optical ferromagnetic resonance Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 1468-1470 2002.
- J. D. R. Buchanan, T. P. A. Hase, B. K. Tanner, N. D. Hughes, and R. J. Hicken
Determination of the Thickness of Al2O3 Barriers in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 751-753 2002.
- R. Wilks, N. D. Hughes, and R. J. Hicken
Investigation of Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in a Ni Thin Film J. Appl. Phys. 91, 8670-8672 2002
- R. J. Hicken, N. D. Hughes, J. R. Moore, D. S. Schmool, R. Wilks and J. Wu
Magneto-optical studies of magnetism on pico and femtosecond timescales J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 242-245, 559-564 2002.
- J. Wu, D. S. Schmool, N. D. Hughes, J. R. Moore and R. J. Hicken
Large Angle Picosecond Magnetic Switching of Ni81Fe19 Circular Thin Film Elements J. Appl. Phys. 91, 278-286 2002.
- J. Wu, N. D. Hughes, J. R. Moore, and R. J. Hicken
Excitation and Damping of Spin Excitations in Ferromagnetic Thin Films J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 241, 96-109 2002.
- J. Wu, N. D. Hughes, J. R. Moore, and R. J. Hicken
Investigation of the Rise Time and Damping of Spin Excitations in Ni81Fe19 Thin Films J. Appl. Phys. 89, 6692-6694 2001.
- J. Wu, J. R. Moore and R. J. Hicken
Optical Pump-Probe Studies of the Rise and Damping of Ferromagnetic Resonance Oscillations in a Thin Fe Film J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 222, 189-198 2000.
- R. J. Hicken and J. Wu
Observation of Ferromagnetic Resonance In The Time Domain J. Appl. Phys. 85, 4581 1999.
- R. J. Hicken and J. WuP
icosecond Optical Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Spin Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Thin Films ActaPhotonicaSinica 27, Z1 1998.
- R. L. Stamps, R. E. Camley and R. J. Hicken
Spin wave frequency shifts in exchange coupled ferromagnet/antiferromagnet structures: Application to Co/CoO J. Appl. Phys. 81, 4485-4487 1997.
- A. J. R. Ives, J. A. C. Bland, R. J. Hicken and C.Daboo
Oscillatory biquadratic coupling in Fe/Cr/Fe001 Phys. Rev. B 55, 12428-12438 1997.
- R. J. Hicken, S. J. Gray, A. Ercole, C. Daboo, D. J. Freeland, E. Gu, E. Ahmad and J. A. C. Bland
Magnetic Anisotropy in ultrathin epitaxial Fe/Ag100 films with overlayers Phys. Rev. B 55, 5898-5907 1997.
- R. L. Stamps, R. E. Camley and R. J. Hicken
Influence of exchange-coupled anisotropies on spin-wave frequencies in magnetic layered systems: Application to Co/CoO
Phys. Rev. B 54, 4159-4164 1996.
- M. Gester, C. Daboo, R. J. Hicken, S. J. Gray, and J. A. C. Bland
Thickness dependent in-plane magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial Fe films on GaAs substrates
Thin Solid Films 275, 91-94 1996.
- M. Gester, C. Daboo, R. J. Hicken, S. J. Gray, and J. A. C. Bland
Continuous evolution of the in-plane magnetic anisotropies with thickness in epitaxial Fe films
J. Appl. Phys. 80, 347-355 1996.
- R. J. Hicken, A. Ercole, S. J. Gray, C. Daboo and J. A. C. Bland
In-situ Brillouin Light Scattering study of epitaxial Fe/Ag100 films with Cr and Ag overlayers
J. Appl. Phys. 79, 4987-4989 1996.
- A. Ercole, T. Fujimoto, M. Patel, C. Daboo, R. J. Hicken and J. A. C. Bland
Direct measurement of magnetic anisotropies in epitaxial FeNi/Cu/Co spin-valve structures by Brillouin light scattering
J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 156, 121-122 1996.
- R. J. Hicken, C. Daboo, M. Gester, A. J. R. Ives, S. J. Gray and J. A. C. Bland
Bilinear and Biquadratic Exchange Coupling in Epitaxial Fe/Cr/Fe/Ag/GaAs100 Structures
Thin Solid Films 275, 199-202 1996.
- R. J. Hicken, C. Daboo, M. Gester, A. J. R. Ives, S. J. Gray, and J. A. C. Bland
Interlayer exchange coupling in epitaxial Fe/Cr/Fe/Ag/GaAs100 structures
J. Appl. Phys. 78, 6670-6678 1995.
- E. Gu, M. Gester, R. J. Hicken, C. Daboo, M. Tselepi, S. J. Gray, J. A. C. Bland, L. M. Brown, T. Thomson, and P. C. Riedi
Four-fold anisotropy and structural behaviour of epitaxial hcp Co/GaAs100 thin films
Phys. Rev. B 52, 14704-14708 1995.
- C. Daboo, R. J. Hicken, E. Gu, M. Gester, S. J. Gray, D. E. P. Eley, E. Ahmad, J. A. C. Bland, R. Ploessl and J. N. Chapman
Anisotropy and orientational dependence of magnetisation reversal processes in epitaxial ferromagnetic thin films
Phys. Rev. B 51, 15964-15973 1995.
- J. A. C. Bland, C. Daboo, G. A. Gehring, B. Kaplan, A. J. R. Ives, R. J. Hicken and A. D. Johnson
Magnetisation of ultrathin ferromagnetic films at finite temperatures
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 7, 6467-6476 1995.
- C. Daboo, M. Gester, S. J. Gray, J. A. C. Bland, R. J. Hicken, E. Gu, R. Ploessl and J. N. Chapman
Magnetic anisotropy and magnetization reversal in Fe films grown on GaAs 001 and 110
J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 148, 262-263 1995.
- R. J. Hicken, D. E. P. Eley, M. Gester, S. J. Gray, C. Daboo, A. J. R. Ives and J. A. C. Bland
Brillouin Light Scattering Studies of Epitaxial Fe/GaAs films
J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 145, 278-292 1995.
- R. J. Hicken, A. J. R. Ives, D. E. P. Eley, C. Daboo, J. A. C. Bland, J. R. Childress and A. Schuhl
Interlayer Exchange Coupling and Weakened Surface Exchange in Ultrathin Epitaxial Fe100/Pd100/MgO001 Structures
Phys. Rev. B 50, 6143- 6150 1994.
- A. J. R. Ives, R. J. Hicken, J. A. C. Bland, C. Daboo, M. Gester and S. J. Gray
High-Field Polar MOKE Magnetometry as a Probe of Interlayer Exchange Coupling in MBE-grown Co/Cu/Co111 and Fe/Cr/Fe001 wedged trilayers
J. Appl. Phys. 75, 6458-6460 1994.
- C. Daboo, R. J. Hicken, D. E. P. Eley, M. Gester, S. J. Gray, A. J. R. Ives and J. A. C. Bland
Magnetisation Reversal Processes in Epitaxial Fe/GaAs001 films
J. Appl. Phys. 75, 5586-5588 1994.
- H. Tang, R. J. Hicken, Gang Xiao and J. C. Walker
Intrinsic Magnetic Properties of Ultrathin Amorphous Fe70B30/Ag Multilayers
Phys. Rev. B 49, 3625-3628 1994.
- J. A. C. Bland, R. J. Hicken, A. J. R. Ives, M. J. Baird and M. Walker
VectorialMagnetometry by MOKE applied to Co/Cu/Co trilayer structures.
Phys. Rev. B 47, 11852-11859 1993.
- C. Daboo, J. A. C. Bland, R. J. Hicken, A. J. R. Ives, M. J. Baird and M. Walker
A magneto-optic technique for studying magnetisation reversal processes and anisotropies applied to Co/Cu/Co trilayer structures
J. Appl. Phys. 73, 6368-6370 1993.
- R. J. Hicken and G. T. Rado
Magnetic surface anisotropy in ultrathin amorphous and multilayer films
Phys. Rev. B 46, 11688-11696 1992.
- R. J. Hicken and G. T. Rado
Thickness dependent anisotropies in ultrathin amorphous multilayer films
J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 104-107, 1743-1744 1992.
- G. T. Rado and R. J. Hicken
Observability of a Quasilinear Temperature Dependence of the Magnetization in a Semi-Infinite Ferromagnet
Phys. Rev. B 43, 8245-8250 1991
- R. J. Hicken, G. T. Rado and C. L. Chien
Effect of Spacer Material on the Magnetic Surface Anisotropy in Ultrathin Amorphous Multilayer Films
J. Appl. Phys. 69, 5301-5303 1991.
- R. J. Hicken, G. T. Rado, Gang Xiao and C. L. Chien
Observation of Thickness Dependence of Magnetic Surface Anisotropy in Ultrathin Amorphous Films
Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1820-1823 1990.
- G. T. Rado and R. J. Hicken
Theory of magnetic surface anisotropy and exchange effects in the Brillouin scattering of light by magnetostatic spin waves
J. Appl. Phys. 63, 3885-3889 1988.
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