We report electrical resistivity measurements of platinum and gold thin films over a range of film thickness d (1.3 ≤ d ≤ 11.7nm), together with associated measurements of the film morphological and crystallographic grain size. The resistivity results are compared to predictions of the...

A quantum mechanical approach is developed to calculate the surface-induced electrical conductivities of very thin metallic films with isotropic and anisotropic surfaces. Two particular cases are analyzed with this formalism: (1) films with isotropic surfaces and (2) films with anisotropic...