Observation of a Correlation Between Internal friction and Urbach Energy in Amorphous Oxides Thin Films.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
03 Feb 2020
Historique:
received: 30 09 2019
accepted: 06 01 2020
entrez: 5 2 2020
pubmed: 6 2 2020
medline: 6 2 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We have investigated by spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE, 190-1700 nm) the optical properties of uniform, amorphous thin films of Ta

Identifiants

pubmed: 32015356
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58380-1
pii: 10.1038/s41598-020-58380-1
pmc: PMC6997387
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

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1670

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Auteurs

Alex Amato (A)

Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France. a.amato@lma.in2p3.fr.

Silvana Terreni (S)

OPTMATLAB, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy.

Massimo Granata (M)

Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France.

Christophe Michel (C)

Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France.

Benoit Sassolas (B)

Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France.

Laurent Pinard (L)

Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés, CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France.

Maurizio Canepa (M)

OPTMATLAB, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy.
INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy.

Gianpietro Cagnoli (G)

Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France.

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