IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/phsmap/v157y1989i1p285-292.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Long wavelength properties of granular metal-insulator films: A microscopic approach

Author

Listed:
  • Robin, Thierry
  • Souillard, Bernard

Abstract

We present a microscopic theory for the long wavelength optical properties of granular metal-insulator films. It incorporates the statistical and geometrical properties of the clusters as given by the theory of percolation. The dependences of the reflectance with respect to the concentration and to the wavelength are predicted and strongly differ from those of effective medium type theories, but present a very good agreement with the available experimental infrared properties of granular Au films with 40 to 500 Å grains. The theory also yields an explanation for the anomalous absorption which is observed experimentally in such films near the percolation threshold and can reach 40%!

Suggested Citation

  • Robin, Thierry & Souillard, Bernard, 1989. "Long wavelength properties of granular metal-insulator films: A microscopic approach," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 157(1), pages 285-292.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:157:y:1989:i:1:p:285-292
    DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90314-2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378437189903142
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/0378-4371(89)90314-2?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Irwin Deutscher & Martha Beattie, 1988. "Success and Failure," Evaluation Review, , vol. 12(6), pages 607-624, December.
    2. Souillard, Bernard, 1989. "Wave propagation and inhomogeneous media: Beyond effective medium theories," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 157(1), pages 3-12.
    3. Gadenne, P. & Yagil, Y. & Deutscher, G., 1989. "In-situ measurements of the optical properties of gold films near the percolation threshold," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 157(1), pages 279-284.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Souillard, Bernard, 1989. "Wave propagation and inhomogeneous media: Beyond effective medium theories," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 157(1), pages 3-12.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Gadenne, P. & Yagil, Y. & Deutscher, G., 1989. "In-situ measurements of the optical properties of gold films near the percolation threshold," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 157(1), pages 279-284.
    2. Robin, Thierry & Souillard, Bernard, 1993. "A microscopic theory of the reflection properties of metal-insulator composite films," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 193(1), pages 79-104.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:157:y:1989:i:1:p:285-292. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/physica-a-statistical-mechpplications/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.