Physics Research International

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 128505, 1 page

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/128505

Retraction

Retracted: Structural and Optical Properties of Germanium Thin Films Prepared by the Vacuum Evaporation Technique

Physics Research International

Received 10 September 2014; Accepted 10 September 2014; Published 16 September 2014

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The paper titled “Structural and Optical Properties of Germanium Thin Films Prepared by the Vacuum Evaporation Technique” [1], published in Physics Research International, has been retracted as it is essentially identical in content; the paper contains identical figures from a previously published paper titled “Nanocrystalline formation and optical properties of germanium thin films prepared by physical vapor deposition,” by A. A. Akl and H. Howar, which was published in Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Volume 70, Issue 10, October 2009, Pages 1337–1343.

References

Z. Al-Sharafi, S. Mohyeddine, S. Osman Mohammed, and R. M. Kershi, “Structural and optical properties of germanium thin films prepared by the vacuum evaporation technique,” Physics Research International, vol. 2014, Article ID 594968, 7 pages, 2014.