Problem of ambiguity in the determination of optical constants of thin absorbing films from spectroscopic reflectance and transmittance measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 6364-6371

  Lamprecht, K ^a   Papousek, W ^a   Leising, G ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SUBSTRATES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN FILMS;

AMBIQUITY; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; THIN ABSORBING FILMS;

SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0031238021     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006364     Document Type: Article

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