Infrared Studies of the Onset of Conductivity in Ultra-Thin Pb Films
P. F. Henning, C. C. Homes, S. Maslov, G. L. Carr, D. N. Basov, B. Nikolić, M. Strongin
Abstract
In this paper we report the first experimental measurement of the infrared conductivity of ultra-thin quenched-condensed Pb films. For dc sheet resistances such that ω τ 1 the ac conductance increases with frequency but is in disagreement with the predictions of weak localization. We attribute this behavior to the effects of an inhomogeneous granular structure of these films, which is manifested at the very small probing scale of infrared measurements. Our data are consistent with predictions of two-dimensional percolation theory.
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