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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Plasma Process Polym. 2010 Oct 22;7(12):992–1000. doi: 10.1002/ppap.201000065

Table 5.

Thickness measurements obtained via interferometry for ppNIPAM samples deposited using various operating conditions. A refractive index of 1.59 was used for all surfaces.

25 °C 37 °C


(nm) (nm)
Upstream 36.9 °±4.7 49.5 °±3.4
Midstream 53.1 °±6.1 52.6 °±3.3
1st Use 27.1 °±3.4 42.4 °±4.3
2nd Use 27.5 °±3.8 43.5 °±5.3
140 mTorr 35.8 °±4.6 47.1 °±3.9
250 mTorr 37.9 °±4.4 46.1 °±2.8
1 Turn 38.2 °±0.5 46.0 °±3.8
5 Turns 47.5 °±13.1 55.2 °±10.1
80W 44.9 °±4.4 54.6 °±5.1
100W 38.5 °±5.4 44.8 °±5.1