Optical properties of (GeTe, Sb2Te3) pseudobinary thin films studied with spectroscopic ellipsometry

The authors measure the dielectric functions of (GeTe, Sb2Te3) pseudobinary thin films by using spectroscopic ellipsometry. By using standard critical point model, they obtained the optical transition (critical point) energies of the amorphous (crystalline) thin films. The optical (indirect band) ga...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied physics letters 2008-07, Vol.93 (2)
Hauptverfasser: Park, Jun-Woo, Baek, Seoung Ho, Kang, Tae Dong, Lee, Hosun, Kang, Youn-Seon, Lee, Tae-Yon, Suh, Dong-Seok, Kim, Ki Joon, Kim, Cheol Kyu, Khang, Yoon Ho, Da Silva, Juarez L. F., Wei, Su-Huai
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Zusammenfassung:The authors measure the dielectric functions of (GeTe, Sb2Te3) pseudobinary thin films by using spectroscopic ellipsometry. By using standard critical point model, they obtained the optical transition (critical point) energies of the amorphous (crystalline) thin films. The optical (indirect band) gap energies of the amorphous (crystalline) phase are estimated from the linear extrapolation of the absorption coefficients. The band structure calculations show that GeTe, Ge2Sb2Te5, and Ge1Sb2Te4 have indirect gap whereas Ge1Sb4Te7 and Sb2Te3 have direct gap. The measured indirect band gap energies match well with electronic band structure calculations.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/1.2959818