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Fig. 1: Dissipation factor as a function of measurement frequency.

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This work was supported by Samsung Electronics (Samsung-SKKU Graphene/2D Center) and the research fund (NRF-2017R1E1A1A01074493 and NRF-2019R1A4A1027934) through the National Research Foundation by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea. M.C. acknowledges support from Leverhulme Trust Research grant RPG-2019-227.

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H.S.S., M.C. and H.J.S. planned and supervised this reply; S.H., K.Y.M., G.K, S.I.Y. and H.S.S. performed experiments for growth and characterization; C.-S.L., M.-H.L. and H.-J.S. fabricated electrical devices; S.W.K measured ellipsometry and performed analysis; A.A. and S.R. performed calculations of dielectric constants; M.C. wrote the reply with H.S.S. and all authors agreed on its content; the remaining authors of the original paper did not contribute to this Reply.

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Hong, S., Lee, MH., Kim, S.W. et al. Reply to: On the measured dielectric constant of amorphous boron nitride. Nature 590, E8–E10 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03163-x

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