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This chapter is devoted to the optical properties of interfaces and thin films. An interface is a region of separation between two materials with different properties, on which the otherwise bulk-like character of particle motion suffers a change. At the same time, due to fluctuations at the microscopic level, local potential minima, which can trap carriers or impurities, can form along the interface. Although we make references to such localized quasiparticles, we distinguish between surface, as mainly a restriction of movement, and intentionally spatial confined structures such as low-dimensional heterostructures. In this respect, thin films are considered here as regions where the motion of carriers is restricted in a certain plane, but with sufficiently large thicknesses such that the main characteristic of spatial confinement, i.e. quantization of energy levels, does not manifest itself.
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Dragoman, D., Dragoman, M. (2002). Optical Properties of Interfaces and Thin Films. In: Optical Characterization of Solids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04870-2_5
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