O x i d e s

i r o n   o x i d e
state material data range (micron) reference (and link)
cryst. (Fe/Mg)O n,k [tab] 0.2 - 500 Henning et al. (1995) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 112, 143.
cryst. (Fe/Mg)O n,k [fig] 10 - 100 Begemann et al. (1995) Planet. Sp. Sci. 43, 1257.
cryst. FeO n,k [tab] 10 - 500 Henning et al. (1997) Astron. Astrophys. 327, 743.
h e m a t i t e
. Fe2O3 abs. . Hunt, Wisherd (1950) Anal. Chem. 22, 1478
. Fe2O3 n,k visual Baieley (1960) J. Appl. Phys. 31, 39S
. Fe2O3 abs. . Aria, Golomsina (1962) Sov. Phys. Sol. St. 4, 2921
. Fe2O3 n,k visual Winchell, Winchell (1967) Opt. Prop. Minerals
. Fe2O3 abs. . Liese (1967) Am. Mineral. 52, 1198
cryst. Fe2O3 . infrared Samuelsen, Shirane (1970) Phys. St. Sol. 42, 241
amor. Fe2O3 n,k [fig] 8.3 - 50 Popova et al. (1973) Opt. Spektr. 35, 954.
cryst. Fe2O3 n,ko,e [fig] 14.3 - 50 Popova et al. (1973) Opt. Spektr. 35, 954.
alpha Fe2O3 n,k 7.7 - 33 Tanaka (1973) Jpn. Appl. Phys. 18, 1043
cryst. Fe2O3 n,ka,b,c [tab] 4 - 250 Steyer (1974) Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Ariz.
. Fe2O3 Qext/a [fig] 3 - 100 Koike et al. (1981) Astrophys. Sp. Sci. 79, 77.
m a g n e t i t e
. Fe3O4 abs. 2.5 - 36 Waldron (1955) Phys. Rev. 99, 1727
. Fe3O4 n,k 1 - 15 Perry, Wrigley (1967) Appl. Opt. 6, 586
. Fe3O4 bands (calc) . White, DeAngelis (1967) Spectr. Acta 23A, 985
. Fe3O4 n,k 1 - 15 Samokhvalov et al. (1969) Sov. Phys. Sol. Stat. 10, 2172
. Fe3O4 abs. 15 - 50 Grimes, Collett (1971) Nature Phys. Sci. 230, 158
. Fe3O4 n,k 7.7 - 33 Tanaka (1973) Jpn. Appl. Phys. 18, 1043
. Fe3O4 n,k [fig] 0.3 - 13 Huffmann, Stapp (1973) IAU Symp. 52, p.297
. Fe3O4 n,k [tab] 1 - 100 Steyer (1974) Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Ariz.
. Fe3O4 e1,2 2.5 - 50 Moussouros (1975) Infr. Phys. 15, 69
cryst. Fe3O4 photoem. [fig] . Alvardo et al. (1976) Phys. Rev. B14, 2740
. Fe3O4 e1,2 [fig] (c) 20 - 200 Huffman (1977) Adv. Phys. 26, 129
cryst. Fe3O4 transm. (T) [fig] 2.5 - 50 Kuipers, Brabers (1977) Phys. Rev. Lett. 39, 488
. Fe3O4 e1,2 0.10 - 40 Schlegel et al. (1979) J. Phys. C 12, 1157
. Fe3O4 Qext/a [fig] 3 - 100 Koike et al. (1981) Astrophys. Sp. Sci. 79, 77.
. Fe3O4 ext. [fig] 0.195 - 0.65 Hecht, Nuth (1982) Astrophys. J. 258, 878.
cryst. Fe3O4 refl. (T) [fig] 12.4 - 1000 Degiorgi et al. (1987) Phys. Rev. B35, 5421.
. magnetite n,k [tab] (c!) 0.14 - 300 Mukai (1989) in Bonetti A. et al. (eds.) Evolution of interstellar dust and related topics. North-Holland, p.397.
. magnetite refl. 0.3 - 2.6 Cloutis et al. (1990) J. Geophys. Res. 95, 281
m a g n e s i u m   o x i d e   (properties)
cryst. MgO n,k (c!) visual Haase (1927) Z. Kristallogr. 65, 509
cryst. MgO n (T) 0.25 - 5.35 Strong, Brice (1935) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 25, 207
cryst. MgO n (T) visual Radhakrishnan (1951) Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. A23, 22
cryst. MgO k [fig] 0.2 - 0.32 Weber (1951) Z. Physik. 130, 392.
cryst. MgO n visual-IR Stephens, Malitson (1952) J. Res. NBS 49, 249
cryst. MgO k 0.08 - 0.035 Townsend (1953) Phys. Rev. 92, 556
cryst. MgO e1 inf-ty Born, Huang (1954) Dynam. Theor. Cryst. Lattices. Oxford, p.26
cryst. MgO k [fig] 0.17 - 0.35 Johnson (1954) Phys. Rev. 94, 845.
cryst. MgO refl. 0.09 - 0.18 Nelson (1955) Phys. Rev. 99, 1902
cryst. MgO k 3 - 6 eV Peria (1958) Phys. Rev. 112, 423
cryst. MgO abs. (T) infrared Groth (1960) Ann. Phys. 6, 328
cryst. MgO n visual-IR Herzberger, Salzberg (1962) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52, 420
cryst. MgO n,k [fig] 6.7 - 33 Haefele (1963) Ann. d. Phys. 10, 321.
. MgO k 100 - 600 Rowntree (1968) Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State Univ
. MgO refl. infrared Piriou (1964) Comp. Rend. 259, 1052
cryst. MgO abs.c. 0.24 - 1 Sakhnovskii (1965) Opt. Spectr. 18, 100
cryst. MgO n,k; e1,2 (T) [fig] 12.5 - 50 Jasperse et al. (1966) Phys. Rev. 146, 526.
. MgO refl. infrared Piriou, Cubannes (1967) Comp. Rend. 264, 5
. MgO k 10 - 14 Piriou, Cubannes (1967) Comp. Rend. 264, 630
cryst. MgO n,k 5 - 28 eV Roessler, Walker (1967) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57, 835
cryst. MgO n,k 10 - 20 eV Williams, Arakawa (1967) J. Appl. Phys. 38, 5272
. MgO n,k 14 - 33 Duesler (1968) Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Hawaii
. MgO n 5 - 600 Piriou, Cubannes (1968) Opt. Acta 15, 271
cryst. MgO k 35 - 100 eV Fomichev, Zhukova (1969) Sov. Phys. Sol. St. 10, 2992
cryst. MgO refl., k [fig] 9 - 13.5; 15 - 27 Andermann, Duesler (1970) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 80, 53.
cryst. MgO n,k 29 - 80 eV Hanson (1971) Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Tennes
cryst. MgO e1,2 0 - 80 eV Haase (1971) Opt. Comm. 2, 447
. MgO e 1 MHz Fontella et al. (1974) J. Appl. Phys. 45, 2852
. MgO . 0.03 - 0.21 Sorokin, Blank (1976) Opt. Spectr. 41, 278
cryst. MgO k infrared Hordvik, Skolnik (1977) Appl. Opt. 16, 2919
. MgO e1,2 [fig] 0.03 - 62 Huffman (1977) Adv. Phys. 26, 129
cryst. MgO abs [fig] 0.3 - 0.5 Harrington et al. (1978) Appl. Opt. 17, 1541.
cryst. MgO abs.c. 2.5 - 5 Braunstein et al. (1980) NBS Publ. 620
cryst. MgO abs/emis.spectra [fig] X-ray Maeda et al. (1985) Phys. Lett. 112A, 431
cryst. MgO n visual-IR Dodge (1986) in Weber M.J. (ed) CRC Handbook Laser Sci. Techn., p.31
cryst. MgO abs. [fig] 0.17 - 1.2 Ballesteros et al. (1988) Phys. Rev. B 38, 4231.
. MgO refr.ind. . Vedam, Kim (1989) Appl. Opt. 28, 2691
cryst. MgO n,k [tab] (c!) 0.0021 - 625 Roessler, Huffman (1991) in Palik E. (ed) Handbook of Optical Constants, II. Acad. Press., p.919.
. MgO e1,2 [fig] 0.06 - inf-ty Xu, Ching (1991) Phys. Rev. B 43, 4461
. MgO e1,2 [fig] far-IR Cunsolo et al. (1992) Appl. Opt. 31, 4554
cryst. (Fe/Mg)O n,k [tab] 0.2 - 500 Henning et al. (1995) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. 112, 143
cryst. (Fe/Mg)O n,k [fig] 10 - 100 Begemann et al. (1995) Planet. Sp. Sci. 43, 1257.
t i t a n i u m   o x i d e
. TiO2 Raman sp. . Porto et al. (1967) Phys. Rev. 154, 522
amor. TiO2 n,k [tab] 0.35 - 0.74 Chiao et al. (1995) Appl. Opt. 34, 7355
amor. TiO2 n,k [fig] 0.22 - 0.8 Kim (1996) Appl. Opt. 35, 6703
cryst. TiO2 n,k [t+f] 0.27 - 0.37 Schubert et al. (1996) J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A 13, 875
am.,cr. TiO2 transm.; n,k [fig] 0.3 - 1.6 Mosaddeq-ur-Rahmen et al. (1998) Appl. Opt. 37, 691
a l u m i n u m   o x i d e    ( properties)
. Al2O3 no,e 0.5 - 0.7 Brauns (1909) Centralbl. Mineral., p.673
. Al2O3 n infrared Haas (1949) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 39, 532
. Al2O3 n,k [tab] 1.5 - 15 Harris (1955) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 45, 27.
. Al2O3 n 0.3 - 0.6 Hennig (1956) Z. Physik 144, 296
cryst. sapphire no,e (T) 0.25 - 0.7 Jeppesen (1958) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 48, 629
alpha Al2O3 n (T) [tab] 0.26 - 5.6 Malitson et al. (1958) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 48, 72.
cryst. ruby refl.; abs. . Mandarino (1959) Am. Mineral. 44, 961
cryst. Al2O3 abs. visual Mitchell et al. (1960) Phil. Mag. 5, 1013
cryst. Al2O3 abs. visual Levy (1961) Phys. Rev. 123, 1226
. Al2O3 n,k 15 - 70 Harris, Piper (1962) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52, 223.
alpha Al2O3 n [tab] 0.27 - 5.6 Malitson (1962) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52, 1377.
cryst. Al2O3 . far-IR Roberts, Coon (1962) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52, 1023
cryst. corundum refl. [fig] 13 - 26 Barker (1963) Phys. Rev. 132, 1474.
. Al2O3 n 0.35 - 1.6 Cox et al. (1964) J. Phys. 25, 250
. Al2O3 n 0.58 - 3.4 Voronkova et al. (1965) Optich. mater. dlja IK techn. Nauka, Moscow
amor. Al2O3 abs.c. X-ray Fomichev, Parobets (1966) Opt. Spectr. 21, 419
. Al2O3 n 0.3 - 0.8 Khan et al. (1966) Corros. Sci. 6, 483
amor. Al2O3 abs.c. X-ray Fomichev (1967) Sov. Phys. Sol. St. 8, 2312
cryst. corundum Raman sp. infrared Porto, Krishnan (1967) J. Chem. Phys. 47, 1009
cryst. sapphire n,ke,o far-IR Russell, Bell (1967) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 57, 543
cryst. sapphire ne-no 0.14 - 0.32 Chandrasekharan, Damany (1969) Appl. Opt. 8, 671
cryst. ruby ne-no . Dodge et al. (1969) Appl. Opt. 8, 1703
cryst. sapphire n, ne-no vis. - IR Malitson, Dodge (1972) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62, 1405
. Al2O3 abs. infrared Deutsch (1973) J. Phys. Chem. Solids 34, 2091
cryst. Al2O3 n,k (T) [tab] 33 - 333 Loewenstein et al. (1973) Appl. Opt. 12, 398.
. sapphire eo . Gervais, Piriou (1974) J. Phys. C 7, 2374
cryst. Al2O3 n,ko 1 MHz Fontella et al. (1974) J. Appl. Phys. 45, 2852
. Al2O3 refl.,transm. infrared Maeland et al. (1974) Thin Solid Films 21, 67
. Al2O3 abs. infrared Deutsch (1975) J. Electron. Mater. 4, 663
cryst. corundum n,ke infrared Gervais et al. (1975) Rev. Int. Haut. Temp. Refr. 12, 58
. Al2O3 k [fig] 0.001 - 1.2 Hagemann et al. (1975) J. Opt. Soc. Am. 65, 742.
. Al2O3 abs. infrared Turner, Crawford (1975) Solid State Commun. 17, 167
cryst. Al2O3 n,ko,e 13 - 26 Zizin et al. (1975) Uspechi Fizich. Nauk 117, 573
. Al2O3 abs. infrared Harrington et al. (1976) Appl. Opt. 15, 1953
cryst. Al2O3 abs. (T) 0.2 - 1.2 Beljaev et al. (1977) Teplofiz. Vysok. Temp. 15, 214
leiko Al2O3 abs. (T) 3 - 5.5 Beljaev et al. (1977) Teplofiz. Vysok. Temp. 15, 214
cryst. Al2O3 abs [fig] 0.3 - 0.5 Harrington et al. (1978) Appl. Opt. 17, 1541.
. Al2O3 n (T) . Feldman et al. (1979) NBS Techn. Note 993
cryst. ruby ne,o (T) 0.633 Wilson (1980) Ph.D. thesis, Univ. South. Calif., Los Angeles
. Al2O3 n, e1,2 [fig] (r!) 5 - 50 Eriksson et al. (1981) Appl. Opt. 20, 2742.
cryst. Al2O3 . . Lingart et al. (1982) Teplofiz. Vysok. Temp. 20, 872 + 1085
. sapphire . 3 - 25 Lang, Wolfe (1983) Appl. Opt. 22, 1267
. sapphire . 0.3 - 25 Su (1983) Appl. Opt. 22, 2949
gamma Al2O3 transm. infrared Bruesch et al. (1984) Phys. Rev. B29, 4691
. sapphire n (T) . Bukatyi et al. (1984) Opt. Spectrosc. 56, 283
cryst. sapphire n,ko (T) far-IR Cook, Perkowitz (1985) Appl. Opt. 24, 1773
cryst. Al2O3 e sub-mm Bystrov et al. (1986) Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys. 31, 1206
. ruby . . Catunda et al. (1986) Appl. Opt. 25, 2391
. sapphire n (T) 0.633, 0.799 Tapping, Reilly (1986) J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3, 610
cryst. Al2O3 n,k 1 - 250 Worrell (1986) J. Mat. Sci. 21, 781
. alumina refr.ind. . Adams et al. (1988) Opt. Lett. 13, 1072
amor. Al2O3 refl. [fig] 10 - 33 Chu et al. (1988) J. Appl. Phys. 64, 3727.
gamma Al2O3 refl. [fig] 10 - 33 Chu et al. (1988) J. Appl. Phys. 64, 3727.
. Al2O3 n,k (T) infrared Hoffmann (1988) Mast.Ess., J.Hopkins Univ., Baltimore
cryst. sapphire transm.; abs.c.o (T) infrared Thomas et al. (1988) Appl. Opt. 27, 239
alpha Al2O3 n [tab] + abs. [fig] 4 + mm Stead, Simonis (1989) Appl. Opt. 28, 1874.
cryst. sapphire abs.c.o,e infrared Thomas et al. (1989) Appl. Opt. 28, 3277
. Al2O3 . far-IR Grischkowsky et al. (1990) J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 2006
alpha Al2O3 abs. 0.15 - 1.4 Innocenzi et al. (1990) J. Appl. Phys. 67, 7542
. Al2O3 n (T) . Lange, Duncan (1990) SPIE Proc. 1326, 71
cryst. ruby refr.ind. . Lee, Lee (1990) Opt. Lett. 15, 54
alpha Al2O3 transm. ultraviolet Evans (1991) J. Appl. Phys. 70, 3995
amor. Al2O3 n,k [tab] (c!) 0.01 - 0.2; 10 - 40 Gervais (1991) in Palik E. (ed) Handbook of Optical Constants, II. Acad. Press., p.761.
cryst. Al2O3 n,k [tab] (c!) 0.2 - 1000 Gervais (1991) in Palik E. (ed) Handbook of Optical Constants, II. Acad. Press., p.761.
. corundum n (T) . Zouboulis, Grimsditch (1991) J. Appl. Phys. 70, 772
amor. Al2O3 e1,2 [fig] 0.06 - inf-ty Xu, Ching (1991) Phys. Rev. B 43, 4461
cryst. sapphire ne,o (T) visual DeFranzo, Pazol (1993) Appl. Opt. 32, 2224
sput. Al2O3 n,k [tab] 0.2 - 1.2 Edlou et al. (1993) Appl. Opt. 32, 5601.
. sapphire abs. ultraviolet Thomas et al. (1993) Opt. Eng. 32, 1340
cryst. Al2O3 abs, refl.o,e (T) X-ray Tomiki et al. (1993) J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 62, 573
cryst. Al2O3 eo,e 0.001 - 0.14/0.2 Tomiki et al. (1993) J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 62, 1372
alpha alumina abs. (T) ultraviolet French et al. (1994) J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 77, 412
alpha Al2O3 n,k, e1,2 [fig] 0.04 - 1.2 Harman et al. (1994) J. Appl. Phys. 76, 8032.
amor. Al2O3 n,k [fig] 0.2 - 300 Koike et al. (1995) Icarus 114, 203
amor. Al2O3 n,k [tab] 7.8 - 500 Begemann et al. (1997) Astrophys. J. 476, 199.
cryst. Al2O3 n,k o,e (c!) 0.01 - inf-ty. Thomas, Troff (1998) in Palik E. (ed) Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids, III. Acad. Press, p.653
cryst. Al2O3 n,ko ultraviolet French et al. (1998?) J. Am. Ceram. Soc., submitted
amor. Al2O3 refr.ind. . Kijima, Hanada (2000) J. Mater. Sci. 35, 2193
s p i n e l
cryst. MgAl2O4 n,k visual Schlossmacher (1930) Z. Kristallogr. 72, 447
cryst. MgAl2O4 n inf-ty Wang, Zanzucchi (1971) J. Electrochem. Soc. 118, 586
. MgAl2O4 n,k [fig] 0.05 - 0.6 Huffman (1977) Adv. Phys. 26, 129
cryst. MgAl2O4 abs.c. [fig] 0.2 - 0.6 Woosley et al. (1980) Phys. Rev. B22, 1065
. MgAl2O4 . . Heaney et al. (1981) Appl. Opt. 20, 2335
cryst. MgAl2O4 n 0.3 - 6 Roy, Hastert (1983) Proc. SPIE 400, 37
. spinel transm. infrared Thomas et al. (1988) Appl. Opt. 27, 245
cryst. MgAl2O4 n [tab], k [fig] 667 - 2000 Stead, Simonis (1989) Appl. Opt. 28, 1874.
cryst. MgAl2O4 n,k infrared Thomas et al. (1989) Proc. SPIE 1112, 260
cryst. Cr-spinels refl. 9 - 500 Lutz et al. (1991) J. Sol. St. Chem. 90, 54
cubic MgAl2O4 n,k (T) [tab] (c!) 0.34 - 2000 Tropf, Thomas (1991) in Palik E. (ed) Handbook of Optical Constants, II. Acad. Press., p.883.
. MgAl2O4 e1,2 [fig] 0.06 - inf-ty Xu, Ching (1991) Phys. Rev. B 43, 4461
. spinel abs. ultraviolet Thomas et al. (1993) Opt. Eng. 32, 1340
. spinels refl.;n,k (Al/Mg,etc) [fig] 8 - 35 Fabian et al. (2001) Astron. Astrophys. 373, 1125.
Notes:
state: amor. - amorphous, cryst. - crystalline.
data: a,b,c - axes of a crystal, abs. - absorption, abs.c. - absorption coefficient, e1,2 - dielectric function, n,k - refractive index, o,e - ordinary/extraordinary ray, Qext/a - extinction efficiency/grain size, photoem. - photoemission, refl. - reflectance, transm. - transmittance; (T) - dependence on temperature; [fig] - figure, [tab] - table, [t+f] - table and figure, (c!) - compilation, (r!) - review.


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