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PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 403, Issue 10-11, Pages 1907-1915Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2007.10.370
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Ab initio calculations (atoms and molecules); optical properties of bulk materials and thin films; refractive index; birefringence
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The optical properties of cadmium telluride including the linear optical dielectric function, the refractive index, the extinction coefficient, the reflectivity and the plasmon energy have been calculated by density functional theory (DFT). The full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FL-LAPW) method was used with the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) including the orbital dependence of the self-energy, i.e. the orbital-dependent potentials of Coulomb and exchange interactions (GGA + U). Using only LDA or GGA methods underestimates the electronic parameters (band gap and band dispersion). Applying orbital-dependent potentials splits the Te-5s state and shifts the binding energies of the Cd4d levels towards the experimentally determined position. The calculated results indicated that although Te-5s and Cd4d overlap, Cd4d plays an important role in absorption and reflectivity constants. The optical constants of CdTe in hexagonal structure exhibit anisotropy (birefringence) in two directions (in basal-plan and c-axis) but the difference is very small in the static limit. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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