Research Article
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 |
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