Acknowledgement
We thank J. Kim for their technical help at the BT research facility center, Chung-Ang University. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. NRF-2020R1A2C1013040), Republic of Korea. This research was also supported by the Chung-Ang University Graduate Research Scholarship in 2022 (awarded to Yongmin Cho).
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