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Optical Absorption and Photoemission Experiments on Metals and Alloys

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Abstract

In a typical optical experiment monochromatic electromagnetic radiation, ranging from the infrared (IR) to the ultraviolet (UV), is shone onto a specimen surface. The amount of reflected, transmitted or absorbed intensity as a function of frequency can be detected as well as the change of polarization state. From this kind of information the absorbed energy at frequency ω per volume and time, W(ω), can be deduced. Classical electrodynamics gives for this quantity:

$$ W(omega) = \frac{{\omega{\varepsilon_2}(\omega)}}{{4\pi}}<{E^2}>\;=\sigma(\omega)<{E^2}>$$
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  3. Research Laboratories, A.R.L., Solid State Physics, Dayton, Ohio, USA

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Nilsson, PO. (1974). Optical Absorption and Photoemission Experiments on Metals and Alloys. In: Devreese, J.T., Kunz, A.B., Collins, T.C. (eds) Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules, and Atom. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2823-0_17

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