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 # SPR analysis code
+Acknowledgements
+We acknowledge R.L. Schoch for formulating the method to measure layer heights in SPR. We thank R.L. Schoch and R.S. Wagner for writing the SPR Analysis codes for MatLab, IgorPro and Python.