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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Optical Spectroscopy and Ellipsometry

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 516-0943/02
Abbreviation OSE
Course title Optical Spectroscopy and Ellipsometry
Credits 10
Coordinating department Institute of Physics
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Subject syllabus

1. Physical principles of optical spectroscopy and ellipsometry
- Electron transitions and the origin of the spectral dependences of the optical parameters
- Modeling of dielectric function of materials
- Kramers-Kronig dispersion relation, the relation of absorption and dispersion
- Spectral device (dispersive prism, grating, Fabry-Perot
interferometer)
- Selected parts of optical thin films
- Methods of effective environments and their use in optical spectroscopy
2. REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION spectroscopy in the visible, near-ultraviolet
A near-infrared
- Components of spectrometers, the two-spectrometer
- Materials used in optical spectroscopy
- Resolution limit and instrumentation functions monochromator
- Superstructure instruments for measuring reflection spectra, integrating sphere
3. Spectroscopic ellipsometry
- Methods of ellipsometry, the ellipsometric measurement angles psi and delta, generalized
ellipsometry
- Type ellipsometer (zero ellipsometry, polarization modulation,
rotating analyzer and rotating compensator)
- Methods of averaging and error compensation
- Methods of ellipsometric data
4. Spectroscopy in the mid-infrared
- The physical origin of the infrared absorption spectrum characteristic vibrational
- The principle of using a Fourier transform spectrometer (FTIR)
- Modeling of the absorption maxima, chemical analysis
5. Magneto-optical spectroscopy
- The origin of magneto-optical phenomena, Kerr, Faraday and magneto Voightův
phenomenon
- Cutting magneto phenomena according to the direction of magnetization
- Specifics of magneto-optical ellipsometer
6. MODERN AND ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES optical spectroscopy
- Emission spectroscopy
- Laser spectroscopy, photoluminescence and fluorescence spectroscopy,
Raman spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy with a time resolution
- Spectral measurements on ultrathin layers
- Periodic diffraction grating systems
7. APPLICATION optical spectroscopy and ellipsometry IN RESEARCH
A TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICE




Literature

1. S. Svanberg, Atomic and molecular spectroscopy: basic aspects and
practical applications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991.
2. D. S. Kliger, J. W. Lewis, C. E. Randall, Polarized light in optics and
spectroscopy, Academic Press, New York 1990.
3. R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and polarized light, North-
Holland, Amsterdam 1977.

Advised literature

1. I. Ohlídal, D. Franta, Ellipsometry of thin film systems, In: Progress in
Optics, Vol. 41, Ed. E. Wolf, 2000.
2. H. Tompkins and E. Irene, Handbook of Ellipsometry, William Andrew 2005.
1. Proceedings from ICSE conferences: Thin Solid Films Vol. 234 (1993),
Vol. 290-291 (1996), Vol. 455-456 (2004)