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Structure of island gold films on carbon and glass substrates is investigated in the present work. The films were deposited by means of vacuum evaporation at constant pressure, temperature and deposition rate. Shapes, diameters, number densities and statistical distributions of island sizes are investigated in the region of the proper growth of island films. Experimental values are compared with the latest considerations on the coalescence theory. In the region of thicknesses where the number density of islands increases, their sizes do not change and the islands have the circular symmetry. In the region with the decreasing number density the island sizes increase, they have approximately the elliptical symmetry and the shapes of the statistical distributions of island sizes are different. It follows from the above facts that the mechanism of the origin of the two types of islands is different.
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Sodomka, L., Chudoba, T. Structure of gold island films. Czech J Phys 31, 895–904 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01603785
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01603785