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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Absorption coefficient can be used to
      make Tauc plot and tangent method gives Tauc gap [
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauc_plot">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauc_plot</a> ].<br>
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      Optical gap is determined from the plot of epsilon2 (the imaginary
      part of the dielectric function) using the tangent method.<br>
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      To visualize what Xavier describes in the posts at <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg08951.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg08951.html</a><br>
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      see for example Figure 7 in the article titled "Band Gap
      Determination from Diffuse Reflectance Measurements of Irradiated
      Lead Borate Glass System Doped with TiO2 by Using Diffuse
      Reflectance Technique" by S. Ebraheem and A. El-Saied [
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/8-7701026_31475.htm">http://file.scirp.org/Html/8-7701026_31475.htm</a> ].  This article
      also describes how r might be determined for the Tauc plot.<br>
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      On 3/7/2016 3:05 PM, said chibani wrote:<br>
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          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"><span
            style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear
            Wien Users ,</span><br>
          how to determine</span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> </span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">optical
          gap</span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> </span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">from</span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> </span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">the
          graph of </span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> </span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">optical</span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> </span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">properties</span><span
          style="font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)"> ? is
          determine from the graph of </span><span
          style="font-size:16px">absorption coefficient? and how ?</span><br>
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