| Issue |
J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ.
Volume 9, 2014
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 14010 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.2971/jeos.2014.14010 | |
| Published online | 10 February 2014 | |
Regular papers
Polarimetric approach for well-defined impurities detection in isotropic materials
1
Università di Napoli Parthenope, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Centro Direzionale isola C4, Napoli, 80143, Italy
2
CNR, IMM - UOS di Napoli, Via Pietro Castellino 111, Napoli, 80131, Italy
* andrea.buono@uniparthenope.it
** mario.iodice@cnr.it
Received:
16
October
2013
Revised:
13
November
2013
In this paper, a new kind of approach to reveal the presence of well-defined impurities in isotropic materials is proposed and verified against actual measurements over real samples. The rationale lies in the different polarimetric symmetry properties of inhomogeneous and isotropic materials within well-defined impurities from homogeneous ones. The underpinning physical idea is to inspect the Mueller matrix of the material sample, obtained from an ellipsometric measure: its form, in terms of symmetry, can reveal whether or not if in there are well-defined impurities in the sample.
Key words: Polarimetry / Mueller matrix / impurities detection
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