Optical constants
Refractive index of AuAl2 (Gold-aluminium intermetallic, Purple plague)
Chen and Lynch 1988: n,k 0.22–0.79 µm
- Data
- tabulated nk
- Range
- 0.22–0.79 µm
- Points
- 58
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
Plot
Click the plot to set the calculator wavelength.
At one wavelength
- Refractive index n
- 1.50959
- Extinction coefficient k
- 2.03854
- Permittivity ε1
- -1.87681
- Permittivity ε2
- 6.15471
- Absorption coefficient α
- 435961 cm⁻¹
- Penetration depth δ = λ/(2πk)
- 45.8756 nm
- Abbe number Vd
- —
- Chromatic dispersion dn/dλ
- -7.344 µm⁻¹
- Group index ng
- 5.82492
- Group velocity dispersion
- — fs²/mm
- Dispersion parameter D
- — ps/(nm·km)
- Photon energy
- 2.11001 eV
ε = (n + ik)², α = 4πk/λ, ng = n − λ dn/dλ, GVD = λ³/(2πc²) d²n/dλ², D = −(λ/c) d²n/dλ². Group-velocity dispersion is given for formula data only.
Use it in Lightsmith
Load this data in Python, simulate in one more line
pip install lightsmith
import lightsmith as ls
# AuAl2 (Gold-aluminium intermetallic, Purple plague): Chen and Lynch 1988: n,k 0.22–0.79 µm
aual2 = ls.fetch_refractiveindex("other", "AuAl2", "Chen", ref="c5c2f188e848453def5970e347399d653df2ffc2")
print(aual2.range_nm) # (220, 790) nm
eps = aual2.eps([633]) # complex permittivity
Downloads the original record once (pinned to the imported snapshot) and caches it.
import json, urllib.request
import lightsmith as ls
url = "https://materials.lightsmith.dev/v1/datasets/ds_c95e68777f89/lightsmith"
aual2 = ls.Tabulated.model_validate(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url)))
print(aual2.source) # citation and provenance travel with the data
Any dataset here, as the library's Tabulated material (aual2/chen-lynch-1988).
# ... load aual2 as above, then:
sim = ls.Simulation(
particles=[ls.Particle(shape=ls.Sphere(radius_nm=50), material=aual2)],
medium_index=1.0,
wavelengths=ls.WavelengthRange(start_nm=400, stop_nm=790, num=81),
)
res = ls.solve(sim) # exact Mie for a sphere
print(res.q_ext) # extinction efficiency at each wavelength
Same spec runs with DDA, FDTD, BEM or T-matrix: ls.compare(sim, ["mie", "dda"]).
Lightsmith is open source (MIT): Mie, T-matrix, BEM, DDA, FDTD, RCWA, TMM, mode solvers and inverse design behind one spec, on CPU or GPU. GitHub.
Comments and conditions
References
- doi:10.1002/pssb.2221480136 The Optical Properties of AuAl<sub>2</sub> and PtAl<sub>2</sub>, physica status solidi (b) (1988)
Cite
Liang‐Yao Chen and D. W. Lynch. The Optical Properties of AuAl<sub>2</sub> and PtAl<sub>2</sub>. physica status solidi (b), 148, 387-394 (1988), doi:10.1002/pssb.2221480136; Data from the refractiveindex.info database (M. N. Polyanskiy, Sci. Data 11, 94 (2024), doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02898-2)
Data
58 rows as published| λ (µm) | n | k |
|---|---|---|
| 0.22 | 0.77223 | 1.50089 |
| 0.23 | 0.7466 | 1.52805 |
| 0.24 | 0.71779 | 1.58552 |
| 0.25 | 0.74809 | 1.66843 |
| 0.26 | 0.8092 | 1.75212 |
| 0.27 | 0.85933 | 1.82618 |
| 0.28 | 0.8936 | 1.89752 |
| 0.29 | 0.92831 | 1.98378 |
| 0.3 | 0.9501 | 2.06514 |
| 0.31 | 0.99656 | 2.16038 |
| 0.32 | 1.03291 | 2.23815 |
| 0.33 | 1.07859 | 2.32874 |
| 0.34 | 1.12764 | 2.41016 |
| 0.35 | 1.1778 | 2.47853 |
| 0.36 | 1.26273 | 2.53123 |
| 0.37 | 1.33581 | 2.58501 |
| 0.38 | 1.4127 | 2.61522 |
| 0.39 | 1.50579 | 2.65789 |
| 0.4 | 1.60895 | 2.68716 |
| 0.41 | 1.72571 | 2.71766 |
| 0.42 | 1.81972 | 2.71683 |
| 0.43 | 1.9047 | 2.69341 |
| 0.44 | 2.01943 | 2.64426 |
| 0.45 | 2.12342 | 2.57446 |
| 0.46 | 2.1758 | 2.51793 |
| 0.47 | 2.16859 | 2.43608 |
| 0.48 | 2.17688 | 2.32577 |
| 0.49 | 2.17352 | 2.22701 |
| 0.5 | 2.14878 | 2.14787 |
| 0.51 | 2.08404 | 2.08743 |
| 0.52 | 2.02914 | 2.03897 |
| 0.53 | 1.96427 | 2.00295 |
| 0.54 | 1.89174 | 1.97094 |
| 0.55 | 1.8178 | 1.93836 |
| 0.56 | 1.73079 | 1.93284 |
| 0.57 | 1.64063 | 1.96214 |
| 0.58 | 1.5654 | 2.00312 |
| 0.59 | 1.49196 | 2.04973 |
| 0.6 | 1.42092 | 2.11558 |
| 0.61 | 1.35544 | 2.18166 |
| 0.62 | 1.30317 | 2.25022 |
| 0.63 | 1.25677 | 2.3159 |
| 0.64 | 1.2161 | 2.38085 |
| 0.65 | 1.18528 | 2.44697 |
| 0.66 | 1.15716 | 2.51062 |
| 0.67 | 1.13078 | 2.57581 |
| 0.68 | 1.10758 | 2.64288 |
| 0.69 | 1.08647 | 2.70722 |
| 0.7 | 1.06733 | 2.76899 |
| 0.71 | 1.05035 | 2.82841 |
| 0.72 | 1.03479 | 2.88547 |
| 0.73 | 1.02063 | 2.94656 |
| 0.74 | 1.01323 | 3.00972 |
| 0.75 | 1.00664 | 3.07021 |
| 0.76 | 1.00035 | 3.12805 |
| 0.77 | 0.99457 | 3.1835 |
| 0.78 | 0.98938 | 3.23674 |
| 0.79 | 0.98574 | 3.28824 |
Optical transmission calculator
Free-standing sample in vacuum, normal incidence- Transmittance T
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Fresnel reflection calculator
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- R = (Rp+Rs)/2
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