About the Authors

Hamzah A. Hamad

Affiliation Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, United States of America

Jeremy Thurston

Affiliation Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, United States of America

Thomas Teague

Affiliation Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, United States of America

Edward Ackad

Affiliation Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, United States of America

Mohammad S. Yousef

myousef@siue.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Illinois, United States of America, Biophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EA MSY. Data curation: HAH EA TT MSY. Formal analysis: TT EA HAH MSY. Funding acquisition: MSY EA. Investigation: HAH EA TT MSY JT. Methodology: EA MSY. Project administration: MSY EA. Resources: EA MSY. Software: EA TT HAH MSY. Supervision: MSY EA. Validation: HAH EA TT MSY JT. Visualization: EA MSY. Writing – original draft: HAH MSY EA. Writing – review & editing: HAH MSY EA.