Optical Dispersion and the Structure of Solids
- 17 November 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 23 (20) , 1156-1160
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.23.1156
Abstract
A new energy parameter is introduced to describe dispersion of the electronic dielectric constant. This dispersion energy is found to obey an extraordinarily simple empirical relation in the more than 50 ionic and covalent crystals for which reliable refractive-index dispersion data are available. Based on this result we derive a structure-dependent electronic dielectric response function consisting of constant optical-frequency conductivity with high-and low-frequency cutoffs.
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