Solid-state thermal dewetting of just-percolated gold films evaporated on glass: Development of the morphology and optical properties

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 11337-11346

  Tesler, Alexander B ^a   Maoz, Ben M ^a   Feldman, Yishay ^a   Vaskevich, Alexander ^a   Rubinstein, Israel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITE DIMENSION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIES; POLYCRYSTALLINE FILM; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM);

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FILM GROWTH; GLASS; GOLD; GRAIN GROWTH; IN SITU PROCESSING; KINETICS; METALLIC FILMS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THERMAL EVAPORATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84878358047     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp400895z     Document Type: Article

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