Explicit solutions for the optical properties of arbitrary magneto-optic materials in generalized ellipsometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 177-187

  Schubert, Mathias ^a,b   Tiwald, Thomas E ^a   Woollam, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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EID: 0001291045     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000177     Document Type: Article

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