“…Gold films have been widely used in the study of fundamental phenomena in electron microscopy (1,2), and as standard materials for the development of new techniques such as EELFS (extended energy loss fine structure), in the recent work by DeCrescenzi (3). Growth and aggregation of gold condensates on glass substrates was studied by Robinson and Robbins (4), Kazmerski and Racine (5), and other authors, who showed that nucleation occurs at many sites on the substrate surface during the initial deposition process.…”