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...

A quantum approach is proposed to calculate the surface-induced electrical resistivity of metallic and semiconducting thin films when several subbands of Fermi participate of the electronic transport. The application of this approach to explain the experimental resistivity data of Pt and Au thin...