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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
卷 114, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4819240
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- National Science Foundation in RII [EPS-1004094]
- CAREER [ECCS-0846329]
- MRSEC [DMR-0820521]
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- J. A. Woollam Foundation
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0846329] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Two different formalisms for the homogenization of composite materials containing ellipsoidal inclusions based on Bruggeman's original formula for spherical inclusions can be found in the literature. Both approximations determine the effective macroscopic permittivity of such an idealized composite assuming randomly distributed dielectric particles of equal shape and differ only in the definition of the depolarization factors. The two approaches are applied to analyze ellipsometric Mueller matrix spectra acquired in the visible and near-infrared spectral region from metal and semiconductor slanted columnar thin films. Furthermore, the effective dielectric function tensor generated by the two Bruggeman formalisms is compared to effective major axes dielectric functions individually determined with a homogeneous biaxial layer approach. Best-match model parameters of all three model approaches are discussed and compared to estimates from scanning electron microscope images. The structural parameters obtained from all three optical modeling approaches agree well with the electron microscopy technique. A comparative discussion is given for the validity and applicability of the three model approaches for analysis of future devices structures that may require optical readout using generalized ellipsometry methods. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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