Surface-Induced Electrical Resistivity of Conducting Thin Films

Abstract

A quantum approach is proposed to calculate the surface-induced electrical resistivity of metallic and semiconducting thin films when several subbands of Fermi participate of the electronic transport. The application of this approach to explain the experimental resistivity data of Pt and Au thin films is briefly reported. The surface-induced resistivity is calculated in detail for the particular case of semiconducting films with only one subband.