Abstract
The role that disorder plays in shaping the functional form of the optical absorption spectra of both amorphous silicon and amorphous germanium is investigated. Disorder leads to a redistribution of states, which both reduces the empirical optical energy gap and broadens the optical absorption tail. The relationship between the optical gap and the breadth of the absorption tail observed in amorphous semiconductors is thus explained.
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