Subfloat figure arrangment

Question

I'm trying to achieve the following figure layout using \subfloat but without any success. That is to have one figure one the left side of the page, and other two on the right side, aligned, and as high as the left figure.

I have the following code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=normalsize,labelfont=sf,textfont=sf]{subfig}

\title{}
\date{}
\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{figure*}[!t]
    \centering
    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.325\textwidth]{fig1}%
    \label{subfig:fig1}}
    \hfill
    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth]{fig2}%
    \label{subfig:fig2}}
    \vfill
    \hfill
    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth]{fig3}%
    \label{subfig:fig3}}%
    \caption{my caption.}
    \label{fig:results}
\end{figure*}

\end{document}

but what I get is the following:

as you can see there is a misalignment between figure (a) and the column of figures (b and c).

How can I fix that?

Answer 1

I'm not sure why using figure* for a one-column document, so I add twocolumn. If your document is one-column, use figure.

There are several ways to solve the problem, I like to use \valign (which has no LaTeX interface).

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[caption=false,font=normalsize,labelfont=sf,textfont=sf]{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure*}

\valign{#\cr
\hbox{\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.325\textwidth]{example-image}\label{subfig:fig1}}}\cr
\noalign{\hfill}
\hbox{\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth,height=1.5cm]{example-image-a}\label{subfig:fig2}}}
\vfill
\hbox{\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth,height=1.5cm]{example-image-b}\label{subfig:fig3}}}
\cr}

\end{figure*}

\end{document}

I use height=1.5cm just to reproduce the format of your images.