PRISA: a user-friendly software for determining refractive index, extinction co-efficient, dispersion energy, band gap, and thickness of semiconductor and dielectric thin films
Open Access
- 15 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nano Express
- Vol. 2 (1), 010008
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-959x/abd967
Abstract
A user-friendly software PRISA has been developed to determine optical constants (refractive index and extinction co-efficient), dispersion parameters (oscillator energy and dispersion energy), absorption co-efficient, band gap and thickness of semiconductor and dielectric thin films from measured transmission spectrum, only. The thickness, refractive index, and extinction co-efficient of the films have been derived using Envelope method proposed by Swanepoel. The absorption co-efficient in the strong absorption region is calculated using the method proposed by Connel and Lewis. Subsequently, both direct and indirect bandgap of the films is estimated from the absorption co-efficient spectrum using Tauc plot. The software codes are written in Python and the graphical user interface is programmed with tkinter package of Python. It provides convenient input and output of the measured and derived data. The software has a feature to cross check the results by retrieving transmission spectrum using the values of refractive index, extinction co-efficient, and thickness obtained from Envelope method. The performance of the software is verified by analyzing numerically generated transmission spectra of a-Si:H amorphous semiconductor thin films, and experimentally measured transmission spectra of electron beam evaporated HfO2 dielectric thin films as examples. PRISA is found to be much simpler and accurate as compared to the other freely available softwares. To help researchers working on thin films, the software is made freely available at https://www.shuvendujena.tk/download.Keywords
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