Optical absorption parameters of amorphous carbon films from Forouhi–Bloomer and Tauc–Lorentz models: a comparative study
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In this article, Tauc-Lorentz (TL), Forouhi-Bloomer (FB) and modified FB models were applied to the interband absorption of amorphous carbon films.Abstract:
Parametrization models of optical constants, namely Tauc-Lorentz (TL), Forouhi-Bloomer (FB) and modified FB models, were applied to the interband absorption of amorphous carbon films The optical constants were determined by means of transmittance and reflectance measurements in the visible range The studied films were prepared by rf sputtering and characterized for their chemical properties The analytical models were also applied to other optical data published in the literature pertaining to films produced by various deposition techniques The different approaches used to determine important physical parameters of the interband transition yielded different results A figure-of-merit was introduced to check the applicability of the models and the results showed that FB modified for an energy dependence of the dipole matrix element adequately represents the interband transition in the amorphous carbons Further, the modified FB model shows a relative superiority over the TL ones for concerning the determination of the band gap energy, as it is the only one to be validated by an independent, though indirect, gap measurement by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy Finally, the application of the modified FB model allowed us to establish some important correlations between film structure and optical absorption propertiesread more
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