Deficiency of Standard Effective-Medium Approximation for Ellipsometry of Layers of Nanoparticles

Figure 3

Spectra of the angle of (a) thinnest deposited film (sample N8 with the gold mass thickness of about 1 nm); (b) thickest deposited film; and (c) annealed thickest film (sample N0 with the gold mass thickness of about 25 nm).

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