Deviation from perfect conical dispersion in Dirac materials, such as the presence of mass or tilting, enhances the control and directionality of electronic transport. To identify these signatures, we analyze the thermal derivative spectra of optical reflectivity in doped massive tilted Dirac systems. The density of states and chemical potential are determined as preliminary steps to calculate the optical conductivity tensor at finite temperature using thermal convolution. Changes in reflection caused by temperature variations enable the clear identification of critical frequencies in the optical response. By measuring these spectral features in the thermoderivative spectrum, energy gaps and band structure tilting can be determined. A comparison is presented between the spectra of various low-energy Dirac Hamiltonians. Our findings suggest that thermal difference spectroscopy holds promise as a valuable technique for probing interband transitions of two-dimensional Dirac fermions.

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• Dirac fermions
• Electronic structure
• Optical conductivity
• Temperature
• 2-dimensional systems