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Optical properties of thin films

David E. Aspnes
- 19 Mar 1982 - 
- Vol. 89, Iss: 3, pp 249-262
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In this article, the connection between microstructure and absolute limits to the allowed values of the dielectric response of two-phase composites is reviewed and a solution of the Clausius-Mossotti problem is developed from basic principles.
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This article is published in Thin Solid Films.The article was published on 1982-03-19. It has received 1433 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surface roughness & Isotropy.

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Double-handed circular Bragg phenomena in polygonal helix thin films

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of titanium dioxide thin films with polygonal helix-shaped nanostructures was investigated, including triangle, square, pentagon, and star-shaped polygonals.
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Structure and chemical composition of fluorinated SiO2 films deposited using SiF4/O2 plasmas

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed an attentive total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and spectroscopic ellipsometry for chemical and structural analysis of fluorinated SiO2 deposited in SiF4 and O2 plasmas.
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Reversible charging effects in SiO2 films containing Si nanocrystals

TL;DR: In this paper, reversible charging effects are observed in metal-insulator-semiconductor structures which have been ion implanted and annealed to produce Si nanocrystals in the insulating SiO2 layer.
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Spectroscopy studies of functionalized oxidized porous silicon surface for biosensing applications

TL;DR: In this paper, the Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopic results obtained after the modification of a porous silica surface using different steps of functionalization and protein grafting were reported.
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Preparation Methods and Thermal Performance of Hybrid Nanofluids

TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive writing on the combination of half and half nanoparticles, cross breed nanofluid and thermal execution of mixture nanofluid have been incorporated and checked on.
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Ellipsometry and polarized light

TL;DR: In this article, the polarization of light waves and propagation of polarized light through polarizing optical systems are discussed. But the authors focus on the application of ellipsometry in the field of measurement in ellipsometer systems.
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A Variational Approach to the Theory of the Effective Magnetic Permeability of Multiphase Materials

TL;DR: In this article, the authors established and applied variational theorems for the derivation of bounds for the effective magnetic permeability of macroscopically homogeneous and isotropic multiphase materials.
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Investigation of effective-medium models of microscopic surface roughness by spectroscopic ellipsometry

TL;DR: In this article, Bruggeman and Maxwell Garnett showed that the dielectric properties of microscopically rough layers of thicknesses 100-500 \AA{}A are accurately modeled in the effective medium approximation.
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