Which effect causes shifting interference fringes when crystal surface oxidizes?

💡 Explanation

Oxidation changes layer thickness, therefore the optical path length shift alters the fringes because index changes during Fresnel Reflection mechanism. Therefore interference patterns are changed; rather than other effects related to plasmons, lattice shrinking, or grain scattering.

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