Optical Constants of Crystalline and Amorphous Semiconductors

1. Front Matter

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2. Introductory Remarks

   1. Introductory Remarks

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      Pages 1-3

3. Group-IV Semiconductors

   1. Diamond (C)

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      Pages 5-17

   2. Silicon (Si)

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   3. Germanium (Ge)

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      Pages 33-48

   4. Gray Tin (α-Sn)

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   5. Cubic Silicon Carbide (3C-SiC)

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      Pages 63-72

   6. Hexagonal Silicon Carbide (2H-, 4H-, and 6H-SiC)

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      Pages 73-90

   7. Rhombohedral Silicon Carbide (15R-SiC)

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      Pages 91-93

   8. Silicon-Germanium Alloy (SixGe1-x)

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      Pages 94-112

   9. Carbon-Incorporated Alloys (SI_1-x C _x , SI_1-x-y GE _x C _y , etc.)

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      Pages 113-117

4. III–V Binary Semiconductors

   1. Cubic Boron Nitride (c-BN)

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      Pages 119-126

   2. Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN)

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      Pages 127-136

   3. Boron Phosphide (BP)

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      Pages 137-140

   4. Boron Arsenide (BAs)

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      Pages 141-142

   5. Aluminum Nitride (AIN)

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      Pages 143-151

   6. Aluminum Phosphide (AIP)

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      Pages 152-155

   7. Aluminum Arsenide (AIAs)

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      Pages 156-165

   8. Aluminum Antimonide (AISb)

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      Pages 166-174

   9. Wurtzite Gallium Nitride (α-GaN)

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      Pages 175-187

Knowledge of the refractive indices and absorption coefficients of semiconductors is especially import in the design and analysis of optical and optoelectronic devices. The determination of the optical constants of semiconductors at energies beyond the fundamental absorption edge is also known to be a powerful way of studying the electronic energy-band structures of the semiconductors. The purpose of this book is to give tabulated values and graphical information on the optical constants of the most popular semiconductors over the entire spectral range. This book presents data on the optical constants of crystalline and amorphous semiconductors. A complete set of the optical constants are presented in this book. They are: the complex dielectric constant (E=e.+ieJ, complex refractive index (n*=n+ik), absorption coefficient (a.), and normal-incidence reflectivity (R). The semiconductor materials considered in this book are the group-IV elemental and binary, llI-V, IT-VI, IV-VI binary semiconductors, and their alloys. The reader will fmd the companion book "Optical Properties of Crystalline and Amorphous Semiconductors: Materials and Fundamental Principles" useful since it emphasizes the basic material properties and fundamental prinCiples.

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• Department of Electronic Engineering, Gunma University, Kiryu-shi, Gunma, Japan

  Sadao Adachi

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