Surface roughness of ultra-thin silver films sputter deposited on a glass

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 595-600

  Rakocevic, Z ^a   Petrovic, R ^b   Strbac, S ^b  

^a Laboratory of Atomic Physics   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Glass; Scanning tunnelling microscopy; Silver; Sputter deposition; Surface roughness; Ultra thin films

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FILM THICKNESS; GLASS; GLASS SUBSTRATES; METALLIC FILMS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CONDITION; GLASS SURFACES; THIN FILMS-THICKNESS; THIN SILVER FILMS; THIN-FILMS; ULTRA-THIN; ULTRA-THIN FILM;

ULTRATHIN FILMS;

GLASS; SILVER;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILM; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 57449112116     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02123.x     Document Type: Article

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