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2. C. W. Draper and J. M. Poate, Internat. Metal Reviews 30, 85 (1985).
3. See also the Proceedings of the Material Research Society held in Boston and dedicated to this subject since 1978. (Some of them are quoted below (5, 12, 35, 38, 44a).
4. H. S. Carsi aw and J. C. Jaeger, Conduction of Heat in Solids, 2nd ed. (Oxford Press, 1959 ).
5. B. Baeri, in Laser and Electron Beam Interactions with Solids, edited by B. R. Appleton and G. K. Celler (Elsevier-North Holland, 1982 ), p. 151.