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<strong>optical</strong><br />

conductivity in<br />

practical units<br />

“N1” The real part of<br />

the refraction<br />

index<br />

“N2” The imaginary<br />

part of the<br />

refraction index<br />

(extinction<br />

coefficient)<br />

“PD” Penetration<br />

depth<br />

1<br />

2πn2ω<br />

“LF” Loss function ⎛ 1 ⎞ ε 2<br />

Im⎜−<br />

⎟ = 2 2<br />

⎝ ε ⎠ ε + ε<br />

Table 4-2 The output quantities of the “Dielectric Function” model.<br />

4.6.1. Drude-Lorentz dielectric function<br />

n - -<br />

1<br />

n - -<br />

2<br />

1<br />

cm -<br />

Guide <strong>to</strong> RefFIT Page 59<br />

2<br />

- -<br />

The physical meaning of the Drude-Lorentz (DL) dielectric function and its parameters is<br />

described in section 2.2.3.<br />

The dimensionless ε ∞ is s<strong>to</strong>red in the “Einf” field. Each row in the “Lorentzians” table<br />

corresponds <strong>to</strong> one oscilla<strong>to</strong>r. The transverse frequency ω 0 is taken from the column “Wo”<br />

(measured in cm -1 ), plasma frequency ω p – from column “Wp” (measured in cm -1 ), and<br />

linewidth γ (measured in cm -1 ) – from column “G”. The light frequency ω is measured in cm -<br />

1<br />

as well.<br />

The Drude term is a particular case of the Lorentz term, with ω 0 = 0 . In this case ω 0<br />

must be fixed (not active in <strong>fit</strong>).<br />

4.6.2. Special dielectric functions<br />

In addition <strong>to</strong> the standard Drude-Lorentz model RefFIT has a number of extra built-in<br />

formulas for the dielectric function. In this section we will describe all of them.<br />

The parameters of the extra (special) dielectric functions can be s<strong>to</strong>red in the<br />

“Lorentzians” table of the model window, using a ‘trick’, similar <strong>to</strong> the one intended <strong>to</strong><br />

distinguish the Dielectric Function model from other (special) models (section 4.5).<br />

By default, RefFIT assumes that each row in the “Lorentzians” table corresponds <strong>to</strong> a<br />

Lorentz oscilla<strong>to</strong>r. However, if the “Wo” column contains a negative integer value, e.g., -10 (it<br />

should be also fixed!), RefFIT considers the parameters in the “Wp” and “G” columns as the<br />

ones of a special dielectric function. The particular type of a dielectric function is determined<br />

by the number in the “Wo” column. Some special functions depend on more than two<br />

parameters, so that two or more rows are necessary <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>re them.

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