Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2006, 8(1):22-24 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2006.1.22-24

Thin Film Optical Parameters Determination by the Dynamical Modelling and Stochastic Optimization Method

Stanislav Jurecka1, Jarmila Mullerova1
1 Department of Engineering Fundamentals, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia

We report on a new method of experimental data processing to obtain optical parameters of thin films. Dynamical modelling of the spectral reflectance can be performed interactively in a graphical environment by the genetic search in wide interval of parameter space and then refined by the genetic algorithm method, by the Nelder-Mead downhill simplex method or Marquardt-Levenberg method. Optical parameters of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin film used in solar cell technology are determined by this new method. The spectral reflectance is a function of optical properties and the thickness of the film. Optical parameters found by our approach do not depend on the initial spectral reflectance estimation.

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Jurecka, S., & Mullerova, J. (2006). Thin Film Optical Parameters Determination by the Dynamical Modelling and Stochastic Optimization Method. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 8(1), 22-24. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2006.1.22-24
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