Acknowledgement
This work has partly received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2021 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie's INNMEDSCAN project (grant agreement ID 101086178). We would like to thank Zecotek Photonics Inc. for providing MAPD samples.
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