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Gold Films: Optical and Structural Properties of Ultra‐thin Gold Films (Advanced Optical Materials 1/2015)
Author(s) -
Kossoy Anna,
Merk Virginia,
Simakov Denis,
Leosson Kristjan,
KénaCohen Stéphane,
Maier Stefan A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.201570001
Subject(s) - materials science , thin film , surface finish , conductivity , optoelectronics , nanoscopic scale , surface roughness , nanotechnology , optics , composite material , physics , chemistry
Gold films, made suitably thin, exhibit high transparency and high conductivity at the same time. A. Kossoy, K. Leosson, and co‐workers from the University of Iceland and Imperial College London have fabricated continuous gold films as thin as approximately 5 nm on glass substrates, using conventional deposition techniques. Experiments on page 71 show that transmission of light through such films is consistently lower than the theoretically expected value, an effect attributed to atomic‐scale interface roughness.