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Determination of the complex refractive index and optical bandgap of CH3NH3PbI3 thin films
Determination of the complex refractive index and optical bandgap of CH3NH3PbI3 thin films
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2017
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Guerra, J. A.
Tejada, A.
Korte, L.
Kegelmann, L.
Tofflinger, J. A.
Albrecht, S.
Rech, B.
Weingartner, R.
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We report the complex refractive index of methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) perovskite thin films obtained by means of variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry and transmittance/reflectance spectrophotometry in the wavelength range of 190 nm to 2500 nm. The film thickness and roughness layer thickness are determined by minimizing a global unbiased estimator in the region where the spectrophotometry and ellipsometry spectra overlap. We then determine the optical bandgap and Urbach energy from the absorption coefficient, by means of a fundamental absorption model based on band fluctuations in direct semiconductors. This model merges both the Urbach tail and the absorption edge regions in a single equation. In this way, we increase the fitting region and extend the conventional (αℏω)2-plot method to obtain accurate bandgap values. © 2017 Author(s).
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General Physics and Astronomy