Nanostructure of the nanopores in anodic aluminum oxide films used as template to fabricate Ag nanowires

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1735-1740

  Zhang, Junping ^a   Kielbasa, Jerrold E ^a   Carroll, David L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AAO TEMPLATE; AG NANOWIRES; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ALUMINUM SUBSTRATE; ANODIC ALUMINUM OXIDE; ANODIC ALUMINUM OXIDE FILMS; ANODIZATION PROCESS; BARRIER LAYERS; NANO-POROUS; SILVER NANOWIRES; TWO-STEP ANODIZATION PROCESS; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC WIRE; NANOWIRES; OXIDES; SILVER;

OXIDE FILMS;

EID: 67649535947     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0206     Document Type: Article

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