Estimation of the Optical Constants and the Thickness of Thin Films Using Unconstrained Optimization

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 862-880

  Birgin, Ernesto G ^a   Chambouleyron, Ivan ^a   Martínez, José Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Optical constants; Spectral gradient method; Thin films; Unconstrained minimization

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; GRADIENT METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE; ILL-CONDITIONED INVERSE PROBLEM; LINEARLY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; NONGLOBAL SOLUTIONS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL; SPECTRAL GRADIENT METHOD; THIN-FILMS; TRANSMISSION DATA; UNCONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION; UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0001384606     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6224     Document Type: Article

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