Refractive index of AlN (Aluminium nitride)

import lightsmith as ls

# AlN (Aluminium nitride): Beliaev et al. 2021: Non-stoichiometric AlN; n,k 2–20 µm
aln = ls.fetch_refractiveindex("main", "AlN", "Beliaev2", ref="c5c2f188e848453def5970e347399d653df2ffc2")
print(aln.range_nm)  # (2001.11, 20018.8) nm
eps = aln.eps([6330])  # complex permittivity

import json, urllib.request
import lightsmith as ls

url = "https://materials.lightsmith.dev/v1/datasets/ds_7c97001bbc1e/lightsmith"
aln = ls.Tabulated.model_validate(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url)))
print(aln.source)  # citation and provenance travel with the data

# ... load aln as above, then:
sim = ls.Simulation(
    particles=[ls.Particle(shape=ls.Sphere(radius_nm=50), material=aln)],
    medium_index=1.0,
    wavelengths=ls.WavelengthRange(start_nm=2002, stop_nm=20020, num=81),
)
res = ls.solve(sim)  # exact Mie for a sphere
print(res.q_ext)     # extinction efficiency at each wavelength