BN (o) Refractive Index

Name: BN (o) Refractive Index (n, k)
Creator: Acuitik
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: BN (o), refractive index, n, k, optical constants, thin film

Optical constants (n, k) of BN (o), covering 0.20 – 2.01 μm wavelength range.

Range 0.199 – 2.013 μm

Data Points 147

Optical Constants at Key Wavelengths

632.8 nm (He-Ne)

n = 2.1768

k = 0.0072

589.3 nm (Na-D)

n = 2.1886

k = 0.0080

532 nm

n = 2.2087

k = 0.0094

1550 nm (Telecom)

n = 2.1224

k = 0.0025

n, k Dispersion Curves

Data Table (Sampled)

Wavelength (μm)	n	k
0.1988	2.62327	1.70055
0.2026	2.10452	1.46147
0.2065	1.83715	2.13818
0.2105	2.81578	2.53843
0.2147	2.76569	1.83198
0.2191	2.68394	2.50769
0.2237	4.32889	2.56122
0.2284	4.44850	1.00370
0.2334	3.92343	0.46705
0.2386	3.56500	0.27648
0.2440	3.32069	0.18755
0.2497	3.14287	0.13803
0.2556	3.00649	0.10712
0.2619	2.89776	0.08626
0.2684	2.80856	0.07137
0.2753	2.73374	0.06027
0.2826	2.66988	0.05173
0.2902	2.61466	0.04496
0.2983	2.56631	0.03949
0.3068	2.52361	0.03501
0.3158	2.48561	0.03126
0.3254	2.45155	0.02806
0.3355	2.42086	0.02534
0.3464	2.39306	0.02300
0.3579	2.36779	0.02095
0.3702	2.34473	0.01913
0.3835	2.32364	0.01754
0.3977	2.30427	0.01610
0.4130	2.28646	0.01483
0.4295	2.27009	0.01366
0.4474	2.25494	0.01259
0.4668	2.24099	0.01165
0.4880	2.22807	0.01075
0.5113	2.21615	0.00995
0.5368	2.20513	0.00918
0.5651	2.19494	0.00850
0.5965	2.18551	0.00785
0.6316	2.17684	0.00724
0.6711	2.16883	0.00666
0.7158	2.16149	0.00611
0.7670	2.15472	0.00559
0.8259	2.14856	0.00510
0.8947	2.14295	0.00464
0.9761	2.13785	0.00419
1.0737	2.13329	0.00375
1.1930	2.12918	0.00333
1.3421	2.12556	0.00294
1.5339	2.12241	0.00254
1.7896	2.11967	0.00217
2.0133	2.11811	0.00191

Sampled data (147 points total). Click "Download Full CSV" for complete data.

Notes

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). DFT calculations. Ordinary ray (o).

References

D. V. Grudinin, G. A. Ermolaev, D. G. Baranov, A. N. Toksumakov, K. V. Voronin, A. S. Slavich, A. A. Vyshnevyy, A. B. Mazitov, I. A. Kruglov, D. A. Ghazaryan, A. V. Arsenin, K. S. Novoselov, V. S. Volkov. Hexagonal boron nitride nanophotonics: a record-breaking material for the ultraviolet and visible spectral ranges. Mater. Horiz., 10, 2427-2435 (2023) (Numerical data kindly provided by Georgy Ermolaev)

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