CdSe Refractive Index

Name: CdSe Refractive Index (n, k)
Creator: Acuitik
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Keywords: CdSe, refractive index, n, k, optical constants, thin film

Optical constants (n, k) of CdSe, covering 0.21 – 0.83 μm wavelength range.

Range 0.207 – 0.827 μm

Data Points 500

Optical Constants at Key Wavelengths

632.8 nm (He-Ne)

n = 2.6571

k = 0.3182

589.3 nm (Na-D)

n = 2.6901

k = 0.3902

532 nm

n = 2.6331

k = 0.4592

n, k Dispersion Curves

Data Table (Sampled)

Wavelength (μm)	n	k
0.2066	2.02650	2.05860
0.2104	2.11980	1.91840
0.2144	2.16300	1.77510
0.2185	2.16260	1.64790
0.2227	2.13120	1.54910
0.2271	2.08220	1.48400
0.2317	2.02780	1.45310
0.2365	1.97800	1.45450
0.2415	1.94160	1.48470
0.2467	1.92620	1.53880
0.2521	1.93880	1.61080
0.2578	1.98600	1.69260
0.2637	2.07370	1.77340
0.2699	2.20550	1.83760
0.2764	2.37830	1.86360
0.2833	2.57430	1.82860
0.2905	2.75930	1.72230
0.2980	2.89710	1.56010
0.3060	2.97100	1.37670
0.3144	2.98920	1.20320
0.3232	2.97060	1.05550
0.3326	2.93250	0.93645
0.3426	2.88660	0.84268
0.3531	2.83940	0.76937
0.3644	2.79480	0.71198
0.3763	2.75440	0.66678
0.3891	2.71920	0.63082
0.4028	2.68940	0.60181
0.4175	2.66520	0.57788
0.4333	2.64670	0.55748
0.4503	2.63380	0.53920
0.4687	2.62640	0.52167
0.4887	2.62440	0.50339
0.5105	2.62740	0.48252
0.5343	2.63370	0.45676
0.5604	2.63440	0.42691
0.5892	2.69010	0.39023
0.6212	2.65930	0.33143
0.6568	2.65500	0.28726
0.6967	2.62660	0.23685
0.7418	2.66980	0.14038
0.7932	2.56920	0.09846
0.8266	2.53530	0.09134

Sampled data (500 points total). Click "Download Full CSV" for complete data.

Notes

Cubic CdSe. Room temperature.

References

1) S. Ninomiya and S. Adachi. Optical properties of cubic and hexagonal CdSe. J. Appl. Phys. 78, 4681-4689 (1995)
2) Y. D. Kim, M. V. Klein, S. F. Ren, Y. C. Chang, H. Luo, N. Samarth, J. K. Furdyna. Optical properties of zinc-blende CdSe and Zn_xCd_1−xSe films grown on GaAs. Phys. Rev. B 49, 7262-7270 (1994)
* Authors of Ref. 1 provide a simplified model of the interband transitions (MDF) based on the experimental data from Ref. 2.
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