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. 2015 Feb 3;2(3):326–333. doi: 10.1021/ph5004237

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Atomic force micrographs for template-stripped silver films deposited at a base pressure of 3 × 10–8 Torr but at different deposition rates: (a) 1, (b) 5, and (c) 25 Å/s. The roughness values for the films over a 2.5 μm × 2.5 μm area are (a) 0.32, (b) 0.45, and (c) 0.32 nm RMS. While all the films have similar roughness, their grain size increases with faster deposition rates. This results in a reduction in the optical losses, as shown in the Supporting Information (Figure S1). The scale bar corresponds to 500 nm.