Abstract
We measured the reflectivity of nanoparticle thin films with bimodal size distributions clearly separated by depth and found distinctive spectral differences depending on the direction of illumination. In contrast with previous experiments that implied such differences, the samples in this experiment are prepared by ion implantation at sufficiently high energy to achieve the necessary spatial separation between larger and smaller nanoparticles. We demonstrate that the difference between scattering and absorption probabilities as a function of nanoparticle size is responsible for the differences in maximum reflectivities as the direction of illumination is reversed. This conjecture is supported by a Mie scattering calculation.
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