Optical constants of Cu(In, Ga)Se2 for arbitrary Cu and Ga compositions

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2015, Pages

  Minoura, Shota ^a   Maekawa, Takuji ^b   Kodera, Keita ^a   Nakane, Akihiro ^a   Niki, Shigeru ^c   Fujiwara, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROHM CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CALCULATION PROCEDURE; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; POLYCRYSTALLINE LAYERS; SPECTRAL AVERAGING METHOD; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

EID: 84930225503     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4921300     Document Type: Article

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