Calculating the optical constants, refractive indices, and extinction coefficients of the metal-polymer composite polyparaxylylene-silver

摘要

This paper presents the results of a calculation of the optical characteristics-the extinction coefficient and refractive index-of a metal-polymer composite of polyparaxylylene-silver in the wavelength range 300-2000 nm for various silver concentrations. An algorithm is described for doing the calculation by means of a specially created program. Using the resulting data, multilayer polymeric interference filters based on a metal-polymer nanocomposite of polyparaxylylene-silver are presented that cut off the UV and visible wavelength ranges.