Please refer to the following paper: Mukti M Rana and Donald P Butler, "RF sputtered Si1-xGex and Si1-xGexOy thin films for uncooled infrared detectors," Thin Solid Films, Volume 514, Issues 1-2, August 2006, Pages 355-360. Mukti M Rana -----Original Message----- From: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org [mailto:mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org] On Behalf Of D. Zhou Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 3:00 AM To: General MEMS discussion Subject: [mems-talk] Absorbance measurement of multi-layer structures Dear all, I am now working on the design and characterisation of multi-layer structures for efficient mid- or far-infrared radiation absorbers. I not sure how to measure the absorption of the fabricated structure, for example, a metal/Si/metal sandwich structure. In our group we can only conduct transmission measurement. So how can we extract absorbance from the transmission data? Please give me some hints if you have any experience in this. Thanks very much.