Research on Measurement Methods and Techniques for Optical Constants and Thickness of Thin Films
This article provides a detailed introduction to the method of inversion of thin film pa-rameters based on spectral fitting,obtaining a simplified transmittance formula for the thin film sub-strate optical system.With the help of the Cauchy model,a spectral fitting evaluation function is estab-lished.The simplified transmittance formula of the thin film substrate optical system is obtained,and a spectral fitting evaluation function is established using the Cauchy model.The improved genetic algo-rithm was used to obtain the optical constants and thickness of Si thin films in the wavelength range of 500~800 nm.The results showed that the calculation accuracy of the refractive index and thickness of the films was high,with average errors of only 0.1%and 0.2%,and the error of extinction coefficient could also be controlled around 10%.This method has the characteristics of simple operation,fast cal-culation speed,and accurate results.