R Swanepoel 1983 J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 16 1214 doi:10.1088/0022-3735/16/12/023
R Swanepoel
Show affiliationsThe rigorous expression for the transmission of a thin absorbing film on a transparent substrate is manipulated to yield formulae in closed form for the refractive index and absorption coefficient. A procedure is presented to calculate the thickness to an accuracy of better than 1% with similar accuracies in the values of n. A method to correct for errors due to slit width is also given. Various formulae to calculate the absorption coefficient accurately over almost three orders of magnitude are discussed. Only data from the transmission spectrum are used and the procedure is simple, fast and very accurate. All formulae are in closed form and can be used on a programmable pocket calculator.
Issue 12 (December 1983)
R Swanepoel 1983 J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 16 1214
Joseph M Alcamo et al 2008 Environ. Res. Lett. 3 010202
Nemesio J Rodríguez-Fernández 2006 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 54 35
Robert H Blick and Milena Grifoni 2005 New J. Phys. 7
Guo-Qing Zhang et al 2008 New J. Phys. 10 123027
Vadim Makarov 2009 New J. Phys. 11 065003
Peter Skands et al JHEP07(2004)036
Richard K Barrett and Chris A Clarkson 2000 Class. Quantum Grav. 17 5047