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David Hobbs. Photo.

David Hobbs

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David Hobbs. Photo.

The computation of linear and nonlinear optical constants of semiconductors

Author

  • David Hobbs

Summary, in English

We review the problem posed by the calculation of the optical constants of solids and the adaptation of the equation-of-motion method for this purpose. In the past crystalline materials were studied by employing Bloch's theorem, but for amorphous materials and surfaces symmetry cannot generally be used to reduce the computation to manageable proportions. The equation-of-motion method avoids the need for diagonalization in calculating linear and nonlinear optical properties for large structural models of both crystalline and amorphous semiconductors. This approach should offer a practical technique for calculating the optical properties of large systems.

Publishing year

1996

Language

English

Pages

4691-4707

Publication/Series

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Volume

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1361-648X