Optical properties of gas-evaporated metal particles: Effects of a fractal structure.

Presents a study that described ultrafine metal particles produced by evaporation in an inert gas connect into large clusters by a fractal dimension at length scales less than a correlation length. Development of an effective medium theory for fractal structures; Presence of a structural parameter which can related to the fractal dimension; Results of the comparisons of experimental results on the optical properties of gas-evaporated coatings.