A patched gold overlayer obtained by thermal evaporation on graphite was investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The fraction of the substrate area covered by gold and the overlayer thickness are deduced from XPS angular measurements. These results are compared with topographic data as given by AFM.
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