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    "body_text": "Titanium-nitride nanowires fabricated in a commercial 22-nanometer FD-SOI process remained strongly hysteretic despite burial beneath the metal stack. Across lengths and temperatures, the retrapping current fit a two-channel thermal model with a predicted crossover near 3.5 micrometers. The measurements characterize test structures, not a complete detector product.",
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