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Incidence-angle dependence of optical reflectivity difference from an ultrathin film on solid surface
J P Landry1, J Gray, M K O'Toole
1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Abstract:
We studied the incidence-angle dependence of the optical reflectivity difference in response to ultrathin films on transparent and opaque substrates. We found that the classical three-layer model reproduces the experimentally obtained angular dependence for a monolayer of xenon on Nb(110) and for a monolayer of protein molecules on functionalized glass. We explore the enhancement of the optical response near the Brewster angle (or its equivalent for opaque substrates) in thin film detection.
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