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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 107, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3432694
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aluminium compounds; oscillations; photoluminescence; porosity; porous materials; thin films
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We report that porous anodic alumina (aluminum oxide: Al(2)O(3)) (PAA) thin films directly grown on Si show clear oscillations in their photoluminescence (PL) spectra which are ascribed to PL-induced interferences within the Fabry-Peacuterot optical cavity formed by the PAA film on Si, that involve the air/oxide and oxide/Si interfaces. The existence of the PL-induced oscillations is indicative of the high quality of the interface of the PAA film with Si, which is both planar and smooth. We show that by using these oscillations we can develop a sensitive optical method of measuring the porosity of PAA thin films on Si if we know the film thickness. The method is based on the calculation of the effective refractive index of the PAA film derived from the PL-induced oscillations, which is then introduced into the Bruggeman equation in order to derive the porosity of the film. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3432694]
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