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Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 320612, 29 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/320612
Review Article
Progress in Dual (Piezoelectric-Magnetostrictive) Phase Magnetoelectric Sintered Composites
1Philips Lumileds Lighting Co., 370 W. Trimble Road, San Jose, CA 95131, USA
2Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Received 26 September 2011; Accepted 2 December 2011
Academic Editor: Vladimir Petrov
Copyright © 2012 Rashed Adnan Islam and Shashank Priya. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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