Spectroscopic ellipsometric study datasets of the fluorinated polymers: Bifunctional urethane methacrylate...

The datasets in this work contain the experimentally measured (real) refractive indices, optical transmission intensity, and optical absorption spectra of bifunctional urethane methacrylate perfluoropolyether (PFPE; Fluorolink® MD700) substrate of (0.98 ± 0.13) mm thickness and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF; Kynar® 705) thin-film of (4.47 ± 0.29) µm thickness over a spectral range from 300 nm to 1000 nm, as measured via variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry. The refractive indices data were determined by employing a single Cauchy optical constants function based layer using a Levenberg-Marquardt multi-iterative regression algorithm for all model minimizations. The mean-squared error (MSE) was used as the maximum likelihood estimator, with a convergence of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm reached when successive iterations were unable to improve the MSE. The resulting best-fit parameter values were evaluated for sensitivity (expressed as a confidence limit), and possible correlations. Furthermore, the experimentally measured optical transmission intensity and determined optical absorption of PFPE and PVDF, over a spectral range from 300 nm to 1000 nm, is also presented, as measured via ellipsometry and corrected using Fresnel equations to accommodate surface interference. Given the high transmission of (88.4 ± 0.5)% for PFPE and (95.6 ± 0.6) % for PVDF found, and the low refractive index 1.27 (λ = 589.3 nm) found for PFPE; it is thought that these datasets may be useful for optical applications, such as for photo-curable synthesis processes, or being used as a host-matrix material for photoluminescent compounds.