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Thin Film Optical Filter Fabrication And Characterization, Adam G. Hammouda, David P. Shelton

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

Thin film coatings have a large number of applications. For example, one can eliminate unwanted reflection on a photographic lens or unwanted wavelengths of light in optics experimentation. The fabrication and characterization of films whose refractive indices can be arbitrarily modulated (‘Rugate Filters’) is an ongoing exploration in materials science1,2. Therefore, calibrating a process which can manufacture such films is a relevant pursuit in forwarding such explorations. Reactive magnetron sputter deposition is a commonly used technique for the productions of thin films3,4. This technique steadily flows reactive gas (RG) into a vacuum chamber in which an electric field has been …