Model dielectric function of amorphous materials including Urbach tail

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5445, Issue , 2004, Pages 301-305

  Foldyna, M ^a   Postava, K ^a   Bouchala, J ^a   Pistora J ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^b  

^a VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amorphous materials; Model dielectric function; Spectroscopic ellipsometry; Tauc Lorentz model; Urbach tail

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELLIPSOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

MODEL DIELECTRIC FUNCTION; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; TRAUC-LORENTZ MODEL; URBACH TAIL;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

EID: 3042682283     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.560673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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