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load-bearing objection A serious hardware paper with real prototypes and a promising Tx-capable FAS architecture, but the equivalence claim rests on magnitude-only correlation matching, which is thinner than the paper admits. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2512.03703 v2 pith:I3NXS7OW submitted 2025-12-03 eess.SP

Pixel-based Reconfigurable Beamforming Networks Emulating Physical Movement in FAS

Jichen Zhang , Junhui Rao , Tianqu Kang , Zhaoyang Ming , Yijun Chen , Alikhan Umirbayev , Chi-Yuk Chiu , Ross Murch This is my paper
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keywords fluid antenna systemsreconfigurable beamforming networkpixel-based reconfigurable antennaBessel correlationpattern correlationMIMO antennabeamforming6G
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A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper claims that a fluid antenna system—a single radiator that sweeps across positions to exploit fading diversity—can be built without any moving parts. Its central idea is that physically moving an antenna and switching the excitation currents of a fixed multi-port antenna are equivalent, as long as the resulting radiation patterns share the same correlation, expressed through a Bessel function. The authors build this equivalence with a pixel-based reconfigurable beamforming network (PRBFN), a cascade of identical reconfigurable unit cells that synthesize the required current vectors. Two prototypes, with 2 and 4 output ports emulating 11 and 18 fluid-antenna ports, show measured correlations matching the target Bessel curve within a few percent across a 5% bandwidth. If correct, the approach gives a single-RF-chain fluid antenna with microsecond switching, scalable aperture, and transmitter compatibility.

Core claim

The central discovery is that choosing N beamforming current vectors B for a fixed multi-port antenna produces N radiation patterns whose correlation matrix is approximately |B^H B|, and this matrix can be shaped to reproduce the Bessel-function spatial correlation of a physically swept antenna. Because the multi-port antenna is designed with near-ideal port isolation, its own pattern-correlation matrix K_M is close to identity, so the PRBFN alone controls the FAS correlation. The paper derives a backward iterative synthesis for the cascaded unit cells, assuming lossless matched cells, and verifies the resulting hardware: a 2-port PRBFN emulates W=0.5λ, N=11; a 4-port PRBFN emulates W=1.5λ,

What carries the argument

The enabling identity is C = |B^H K_M B| ≈ |B^H B|, which converts the FAS spatial-correlation objective into a constraint on the beamforming current matrix B. The PRBFN realizing B is a cascade of identical unit cells, each a 3 dB power divider followed by a pixel-based reconfigurable coupler whose PIN-diode states set the output amplitude and phase; the backward iterative synthesis relies on the lossless matching condition H^H_{M,n} H_{M,n} = I to peel off stages from the final output back to the input.

Load-bearing premise

The backward iterative synthesis of the cascaded network assumes each unit cell is lossless and perfectly matched, so that H^H H = I; the fabricated four-port prototype has about 5.3 dB insertion loss, so the realized current matrix is only approximately ideal, and if loss or mismatch grows unevenly with cascade depth the correlation would deviate from Bessel and the FAS equivalence would break.

What would settle it

Build a five-stage PRBFN-FAS (NA=8, equivalent W≈3.5) and compare its measured correlation matrix against the Bessel target across the band; if the relative error grows well beyond the 0.035–0.062 range reported for the 2- and 4-port prototypes, the scaling claim fails. A second check: remove the amplifiers compensating the ~5.3 dB insertion loss and repeat the correlation measurement; a large error increase would show that the lossless-assumption is load-bearing.

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If this is right

  • Fluid antenna ports can be switched in microseconds because only diode states change, with no mechanical inertia.
  • The same hardware can serve as a transmitter because the reconfigurable network sits before the power amplifiers, keeping the diodes in their linear operating region.
  • Aperture size W scales by cascading more unit cells; the authors argue insertion loss is the only limit and can be compensated by additional amplifiers.
  • The pattern-domain interpretation reveals that earlier pixel-antenna FAS implicitly performed beamforming, and it lets PRA-FAS and BFN-FAS be designed under one framework.
  • The PRBFN-FAS acts as a single reconfigurable antenna element and can be embedded in conventional digital and analog beamforming arrays.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the lossless assumption degrades at higher cascade depth, the Gram identity breaks and the synthesized B drifts; a promising test is to extend to W=3 or W=3.5 and check whether the correlation error grows faster than the current prototypes suggest.
  • Because the equivalence depends only on pattern correlation, the same PRBFN could emulate other target correlation functions, such as those for non-isotropic scattering, by replacing the Bessel objective in the optimization—an extension the paper does not pursue.
  • The 5% bandwidth is demonstrated at 2.6 GHz; scaling to millimeter-wave frequencies would require pixel switches with lower parasitic capacitance, and the paper's loss-compensation logic would face tougher power budgets.
  • The system experiment measured 2×2 channels with sequential state scanning; a direct simultaneous measurement of all 18 ports would be a stronger validation that the quasi-static channel assumption holds.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a pixel-based reconfigurable beamforming network (PRBFN) as a hardware implementation of a Fluid Antenna System (FAS). The central idea is that switching the physical position of a fluid antenna port is equivalent to switching the excitation current vector that feeds a fixed multi-port antenna, provided the resulting radiation patterns have the same spatial correlation as a physically moving antenna. The authors formulate an optimization problem (Eq. 15) that selects an excitation current matrix B so that |B^H B| approximates the absolute Bessel correlation |J0| of Clarke's model. A scalable cascaded architecture of unit cells (power divider plus pixel-based reconfigurable coupler) is synthesized by a backward iterative procedure. Two prototypes are fabricated and measured: a 2-port PRBFN-FAS with W=0.5, N=11, and a 4-port PRBFN-FAS with W=1.5, N=18. The measured S-parameters, radiation-pattern correlations, and over-the-air channel measurements show relative correlation errors of 0.035–0.062 across a 5% bandwidth, and the system experiments report FAMA SIR above 10 dB. The paper also discusses scalability, Tx operation, and compatibility with existing beamforming architectures.

Significance. If the equivalence claim is accepted, this is a significant hardware advance for FAS: it provides a single-RF-chain, high-speed, Tx-capable, and in principle scalable implementation without mechanical motion. The experimental work is unusually complete—full S-parameter characterization, radiation-pattern correlation matrices for all states, and system-level channel measurements—and the release of E-field data is a clear plus. The design examples are well chosen to demonstrate different aperture sizes. The main gap is theoretical: the optimization matches only the magnitude of the correlation matrix, and the complex phase/rank structure of the realized covariance is not examined. Since the joint fading statistics that determine FAS performance depend on the full complex covariance for N>2, the measured magnitude agreement is necessary but not yet sufficient to establish full behavioral equivalence to physical movement. This is fixable within the scope of the paper by adding a complex-covariance or end-to-end performance comparison.

major comments (3)
  1. [§II.A–II.B, Eq. (7)–(15)] The paper redefines the FAS correlation as the absolute value (Eq. 7) and optimizes B using only the objective || |B^H B| − C_obj ||_F in Eq. (15). The justification in §II.A that 'the phase of the correlation coefficient is not critical' is valid for a pair of ports, where a per-port phase rotation removes the phase of a single correlation coefficient. For N>2, the joint distribution of the N port envelopes—which is what sets selection gain, outage, and FAMA SIR—depends on the full complex covariance matrix up to diagonal unitary rotations. Gauge-invariant phase combinations such as Re(G12 G23 G31) are not captured by |G|. Moreover, G = B^H B has rank at most N_A (2 or 4 in the examples), whereas the ideal Bessel covariance of a moving antenna is an N×N matrix of full rank. Thus the measured agreement between |G| and |J0| in Figs. 15, 22, and 26 is a necessary but not sufficient validat
  2. [§III.C, Eq. (28)] The backward iterative synthesis of the cascaded PRBFN assumes lossless, perfectly matched unit cells so that H^H_{M,n} H_{M,n} = U_{2(M-1)} (Eq. 28). In the fabricated 4-port PRBFN, the measured total insertion loss reaches about 5.3 dB (Fig. 20(j)), so the Gram matrices of the actual unit stages are not identity. Although the final measured correlation errors are small (0.035–0.062), Eq. (28) is load-bearing for the synthesis of the earlier stages: the target currents for stage M−1 are computed from H^H_{M,n} i_n under this assumption. The paper does not report the measured Gram matrices of the individual stages or quantify how loss/gain imbalance propagates through the cascade. Please add this characterization and state the loss budget for which the backward-synthesis procedure remains valid, especially for larger cascades.
  3. [§V, Eq. (36)–(37)] The system-level correlation measurement is based on only U=2 users and K locations (four locations are shown in Fig. 25), and the estimator in Eqs. (36)–(37) averages autocorrelation products over an unspecified number of channel snapshots. This is a very small sample for validating a correlation model. The radiation-pattern measurements already provide the primary validation; the channel-derived correlation in Fig. 26 is supportive but should be presented with confidence intervals or a statement of the number of independent samples used, or it should be explicitly labeled as illustrative.
minor comments (6)
  1. [§III.B, Eq. (21)] The notation f_1(ˆB′) in Eq. (21) and Eq. (35) is undefined; please define B′ as the optimum for N_A=1 or write the denominator explicitly.
  2. [Algorithm 1, line 7] The variable name 'i2_norm' suggests a squared norm, but the subsequent normalization divides by the norm. Rename to avoid confusion.
  3. [§IV.B, Fig. 15 and §IV.C, Fig. 23] Captions contain typos: 'with idea antenna' should be 'with ideal antenna', and 'reconfigurbale' should be 'reconfigurable'.
  4. [§IV.C, first sentence] The sentence '...with W = 0.5, N = 11 and N = 1.5, N = 18' should read 'W = 1.5' instead of 'N = 1.5'.
  5. [Table III] The port density for the 2-port case is listed as 22, and the text earlier states N/W = 10 is sufficient. Please clarify whether N/W is a minimum, and define the port-density values for both prototypes consistently.
  6. [§II.A, Eq. (2)–(3)] The notation Cov(g_i,g_j) is used for the unnormalized correlation E[g_i g_j^*]; this is not the usual statistical covariance. Consider using 'cross-correlation' consistently.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

Bessel-correlation match is partly designed in via Eq. (15); the independent content is the hardware realization, so the circularity is partial.

specific steps
  1. fitted input called prediction [Section III-B (Eq. 15) and Section IV-B (Eq. 35), Figs. 15/22]
    "we formulate the following optimization problem ... min_B f_NA(B)=∥|B^H B|−Cobj∥^2_F (15) ... Based on the measured outputs of the PRBFN and under the assumption of an ideal antenna (K_M=U_2) connected to its output, the correlation of the 2-port PRBFN can be derived using formula (13). ... The low relative errors demonstrate that the measured correlation results exhibit strong agreement with both the ideal Bessel correlation Cobj shown in Fig. 4(a) and the target correlation Ĉ calculated by B̂ given in Fig. 4(c)."

    The quantity reported as the demonstrated Bessel correlation is the same quantity that was minimized when choosing B. Because C=|B^H B| (Eq. 13) and the optimization (Eq. 15) minimizes ∥ |B^H B| − Cobj ∥_F, any B from Algorithm 1 is constructed to make |B^H B|≈Cobj. The measured S-parameters are then inserted back into Eq. (13) and compared to Cobj via Eq. (35); this chiefly verifies that the fabricated unit cells can approximate the pre-selected B, not that the Bessel relation emerges independently. The genuinely independent content is the hardware realization—measured S-parameters, radiation patterns, and system-level channels—so the circularity is partial rather than total.

full rationale

The paper's central engineering claim is the realization of a PRBFN that can produce prescribed excitation currents for a multiport antenna, thereby emulating FAS port correlation. The optimization in Eq. (15) legitimately synthesizes B to match the Bessel target Cobj, and the later measured agreement between |B^H B| (derived from fabricated S-parameters) and Cobj is a hardware-compliance check. That check is not fully independent because the Bessel target was the design objective; however, the fabricated prototypes, radiation-pattern measurements, and system-level channel experiments provide external evidence that the hardware really does produce the designed currents, so the central claim does not reduce to a pure fit or self-citation chain. No load-bearing self-citation was found: the equivalence framework is re-derived in the paper, and citations to prior work by the same group (e.g., [20], [35]) are supporting rather than the sole basis. The magnitude-only/phase-correlation limitation noted by skeptics is a correctness or sufficiency concern about whether |J0| matching fully captures FAS joint statistics, not a circularity. Overall, there is one partial fitted-input-as-validation step, giving a score of 3.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are postulated. The load-bearing assumptions are the pattern-correlation equivalence (from prior work), the identity approximation for K_M, the lossless-unit-cell approximation in synthesis, and the rich-scattering J0 target. The optimization of B to match Cobj is a design fit rather than a free physical parameter, but it does make the correlation match partially circular.

free parameters (4)
  • Beamforming current matrix B = optimized numerically via PGD
    B is chosen by minimizing || |B^H B| - Cobj ||_F (Eq. 15), so the correlation match is enforced by construction rather than derived from first principles.
  • Relative-error threshold epsilon_0 = 0.01
    Hand-set threshold used to choose the minimal antenna-port count NA; the accompanying heuristic NA >= floor(W/0.5)+1 is asserted from Fig. 3 rather than proven.
  • Optimization weights c1, c2 in unit-cell design = not specified
    Weights balancing amplitude-phase matching against insertion loss in Eq. (33) are not quantified, but they influence the final hardware states.
  • FAS port density N/W = 10
    Taken from prior FAS literature as a sufficient condition; used to fix N for a given W in the design examples.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption Rich-scattering environment with independent, equally likely polarizations and isotropic PAS S(Ω)=S0 U2
    Used in Section II-A to derive the J0 correlation target (Eq. 6); real indoor environments only approximate this.
  • domain assumption Multiport antenna pattern-correlation matrix K_M ≈ identity due to high isolation and matching
    Invoked in Section II-B to reduce C = |B^H K_M B| to |B^H B| (Eq. 13); verified via max off-diagonal 0.06.
  • ad hoc to paper Unit cells are lossless and matched in backward synthesis, so Gram matrices equal identity
    Used in Section III-C (Eq. 28) to decompose the PRBFN stage-by-stage; fabricated units have 1.8–5.3 dB insertion loss, so this is an approximation.
  • domain assumption FAS performance depends only on the magnitudes of port correlations, not their phase
    Section II-A justifies optimizing |B^H B| rather than the complex B^H B, citing prior FAS capacity and multiplexing-gain results.
  • standard math Standard Bessel/Clarke model J0 for spatial correlation under 2D isotropic scattering
    Eqs. (6) and (14) use the standard J0 result from [32] and [34] as the target correlation.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Pixel-based Reconfigurable Beamforming Networks Emulating Physical Movement in FAS},
  year         = {2026},
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The concept of Fluid Antenna Systems (FAS) has emerged as an attractive new system technology for use in sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. However, most FAS implementations rely on mechanical antenna movement and thus are too slow to be useful. In this paper, a novel pixel-based reconfigurable beamforming network (PRBFN) is used to emulate movement in Fluid Antenna Systems (FASs). Using the insight that changing an antenna's physical position is equivalent to changing radiation patterns that satisfy the desired pattern correlation, the PRBFN is used to control the excitation current vectors of a multi-port antenna, thereby governing the pattern correlation. Key novelties of our work involve the selection of current vectors, and the methodology for scaling the PRBFN to realize large-aperture FAS. Results are provided for our PRBFN combined with an FAS (denoted as a PRBFN-FAS) when the equivalent physical movement is set to 1.5 wavelengths. Measurements demonstrate that the PRBFN-FAS provides the desired spatial correlation, including the Bessel function relation from Clarke's model across a 5\% bandwidth, satisfying FAS requirements. System-level experiments confirm the viability of the PRBFN-FAS in communication scenarios.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.03703 by Alikhan Umirbayev, Chi-Yuk Chiu, Jichen Zhang, Junhui Rao, Ross Murch, Tianqu Kang, Yijun Chen, Zhaoyang Ming.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FAS System. (a) Typical FAS configuration with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of the proposed PRBFN-FAS, including the PRBFN with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: In PRBFN-FAS, the relative error ϵ of optimized correlation result |Bˆ HBˆ | against target Bessel Cobj versus PRBFN output port number NA, with the FAS port density of N/W = 10. where the denominator for normalization is the error fNA achieved by setting NA = 1. In this configuration, |(Bˆ′) HBˆ′ | ∈ C N×N is the all-one matrix since there is only one antenna. Assuming FAS port density as N/W = 10, the ϵ(… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Unit cell of the PRBFN: a single reconfigurable module that is cas [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The M-stage cascaded topology of the proposed PRBFN, with single input (single RF chain of FAS) and NA = 2M output ports. The n-th reconfigurable state in of B is presented. where in = [i1,n, i2,n, · · · , iNA,n] T ∈ C 2M×1 , and Hm,n = blkdiag(i 1 m,n, i 2 m,n, · · · , i 2 (m−1) m,n ) ∈ C 2m×2 (m−1) is the trans￾mission response of the overall m-th PRBFN stage. To con￾struct the overall architecture of th… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: (a) Top view of the 2-port PRBFN (or unit cell), with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Simulated and measured (a) S-parameters, (b) efficiency and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: The prototype of the MIMO antenna, with corresponding normalized [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The 2-port PRBFN prototype. (a) Top and (b) bottom view. Among [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Measured correlation of N reconfigurable states (a) of the inde￾pendent 2-port PRBFN with idea antenna whose KM = U2, and (b) of PRBFN-FAS including the 2-port PRBFN and the proposed MIMO antenna. Correlation remains stable across the desired 5% bandwidth. At 2.55, 2.6, 2.65 GHz, the relative errors are ϵ = 0.051, 0.045, 0.055 for (a) and ϵ = 0.047, 0.047, 0.052 for (b), respectively. (a) (b) [PITH_FULL_… view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: (a) Measurement setup of the 2-port PRBFN-FAS. (b) Measured [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: (a) Simulated and measured phase difference between 2 output ports. ˆ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Architecture of the proposed 4-port PRBFN, where the Unit 1, 2, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Measured (a) reflection coefficients (S11, S22, S33, S44, S55), and (b) mutual couplings (S23, S24, S25, S34, S35, S45) of the 4-port PRBFN across all N = 18 reconfigurable states. (a) 2.6 GHz (b) 2.6 GHz [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Measured correlation of N reconfigurable states (a) of the inde￾pendent 4-port PRBFN with ideal antenna whose KM = U4, and (b) of PRBFN-FAS including the 4-port PRBFN and the proposed MIMO antenna. Correlation remains stable across the desired 5% bandwidth. At 2.55, 2.6, 2.65 GHz, the relative errors are ϵ = 0.057, 0.043, 0.037 for (a) and ϵ = 0.062, 0.041, 0.035 for (b), respectively. 2. The reflection c… view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: S21, S31, S41, S51 of the proposed 4-port PRBFN (a)-(i) State 1 to 9. States 18 to 10 mirror States 1 to 9 with the four output ports interchanged. (j) Insertion losses. (Solid lines: simulated. Dash lines: measured.) (a) (b) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: (a) Measurement setup of the 4-port PRBFN-FAS. (b) Measured [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: System experiments setup with the proposed 4-port PRBFN-FAS. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Measured stationary channels for N = 18 PRBFN-FAS ports, with two users (Rx) at (a)-(d) 4 different locations in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Correlation of the 4-port PRBFN-FAS reconfigurable states, including [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Tri-hybrid MIMO architecture integrated with digital beamform [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_27.png] view at source ↗

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