Identifying Key Factors towards Highly Reflective Silver Coatings

Table 4

The average errors of the statistical models for predicting the reflectance of electroplated and physical vapour deposited silvers.

Samples	, nm	%	Experimental; %	Experimental; %	Model (2); %	Error %; (2)	Model (3); %	Error %; (3)	Model (4); %	Error %; (4)	Model (5); %	Error %; (5)
Electroplated Ag number 1	14.3	0.6	83.1	83.7	76.0	8.5	81.1	3.1	88.3	6.2	92.0	9.9
Electroplated Ag number 2	19.2	1.5	74.1	76.7	68.8	7.2	74.8	2.5	76.6	3.3	82.2	7.2
Electroplated Ag number 3	29.1	2.3	65.8	72.9	53.9	18.0	61.8	15.3	67.1	2.1	74.4	2.0
PVD-Ag number 1	17.0	2.7	64.1	71.4	72.0	12.3	77.6	8.7	61.0	4.9	69.2	3.0
PVD-Ag number 2	20.3	3.5	56.4	65.9	67.1	19.1	73.3	11.3	51.2	9.2	61.1	7.3
PVD-Ag number 3	26.1	4.1	47.8	58.5	58.4	22.0	65.7	12.3	43.4	9.2	54.6	6.6
Total average error						14.5		8.9		5.8		6.0