Optical characteristics of titanium with a natural surface layer.

Stas'kov, N.; Ivashkevich, I.; Krekoten', N.; Ukhov, V.; Petlitskii, A.

We discuss the solutions of the inverse problem of multiangle ellipsometry for titanium with a natural surface layer, namely, the determination of the thickness of the near-surface layer and optical characteristics by use of which one can interpret the titanium structure. It turned out that the studied samples of pure polycrystalline titanium have a rather thick inhomogeneous layer of polycrystalline titanium with oxygen and, on this layer, there is a surface layer similar to titanium oxide. The data on the optical characteristics of pure polycrystalline titanium agree well with those determined earlier by other optical methods.

OPTICAL properties of metals; TITANIUM; INVERSE problems; THICKNESS measurement; POLYCRYSTALS; TITANIUM oxides

Optics & Spectroscopy, 2011, Vol 111, Issue 6, p962

0030-400X

Academic Journal

10.1134/S0030400X11130224