Investigation of the Kramers-Kronig analysis - Revised optical constants of AgCl

White and Straley (1968) have reported room-temperature optical constants for AgCl that exhibit negative, unphysical dips at the band edge. Because Morrison (1961) also obtained such behavior for InAs, InSb, and GaAs, a study is made of the possible sources of this anomaly. An artifact of the experimental reflectance data near this energy is found to be responsible. No defect in the Kramers-Kronig transform or its use is implied, contrary to some suggestions. The corrected optical constants of AgCl were modified by about 10% up to 5 eV, whereas at higher energies they were barely affected. Thus Kramers-Kronig-deduced optical constants that exhibit unusual structure are not affected by this structure at other energies. The new AgCl results are presented, and assignments are briefly discussed.