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Tauc representation illustrating the optical bandgap (ETauc~ 0.8 eV) of a film of amorphous Si. The insert shows their corresponding transmittance/reflectance spectra. Picture Tauc.jpg
Tauc representation illustrating the optical bandgap (ETauc~ 0.8 eV) of a film of amorphous Si. The insert shows their corresponding transmittance/reflectance spectra.

A Tauc plot [1] is used to determine the optical bandgap, or Tauc bandgap, of either disordered [2] or amorphous [3] semiconductors.

In his original work Jan Tauc ( /taʊts/ ) showed that the optical absorption spectrum of amorphous germanium resembles the spectrum of the indirect transitions in crystalline germanium (plus a tail due to localized states at lower energies), and proposed an extrapolation to find the optical bandgap of these crystalline-like states. [4] Typically, a Tauc plot shows the photon energy E (= hν) on the abscissa (x-coordinate) and the quantity (αE)1/2 on the ordinate (y-coordinate), where α is the absorption coefficient of the material. Thus, extrapolating this linear region to the abscissa yields the energy of the optical bandgap of the amorphous material.

A similar procedure is adopted to determine the optical bandgap of crystalline semiconductors. [5] In this case, however, the ordinate is given by (α)1/r, in which the exponent 1/r denotes the nature of the transition: [6] , [7] , [8]

Again, the resulting plot (quite often, incorrectly identified as a Tauc plot) has a distinct linear region that, extrapolated to the abscissa, yields the energy of the optical bandgap of the material. [9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tauc, J. (1968). "Optical properties and electronic structure of amorphous Ge and Si". Materials Research Bulletin. 3: 37–46. doi:10.1016/0025-5408(68)90023-8.
  2. ↑ Mott, N. F. & Davis, E. A. (1979). Electronic processes in non-crystalline materials. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ISBN   0-19-851288-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ Street, R. A. (1991). Hydrogenated amorphous silicon. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. ISBN   0-521-37156-2.
  4. ↑ Tauc, J.; Grigorovici, R.; Vancu, A. (1966). "Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Amorphous Germanium". Physica Status Solidi B. 15 (2): 627. Bibcode:1966PSSBR..15..627T. doi:10.1002/pssb.19660150224. S2CID   121844404.
  5. ↑ Yu, P. Y. & Cardona, M. (1996). Fundamentals of semiconductors. Springer, Berlin. ISBN   3-540-61461-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ MacFarlane, G. G. & Roberts, V. (1955). "Infrared absorption of germanium near the lattice edge". Physical Review. 97 (6): 1714–1716. Bibcode:1955PhRv...97.1714M. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.97.1714.2.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ MacFarlane, G. G., McLean, T. P., Quarrington, J. E. & Roberts, V. (1958). "Fine structure in the absorption-edge spectrum of Si". Physical Review. 111 (5): 1245–1254. Bibcode:1958PhRv..111.1245M. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.111.1245.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ Davis, E. A.; Mott, N. F. (1970). "Conduction in non-crystalline systems V. Conductivity, optical absorption and photoconductivity in amorphous semiconductors". Philosophical Magazine A. 22 (179): 903–922. Bibcode:1970PMag...22..903D. doi:10.1080/14786437008221061.
  9. ↑ Zanatta, A. R. (2019). "Revisiting the optical bandgap of semiconductors and the proposal of a unified methodology to its determination". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 11225–12pp. Bibcode:2019NatSR...911225Z. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-47670-y . PMC   6677798 . PMID   31375719.
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