UItrasmooth, large-area, high-uniformity, conductive transparent single-walled-carbon-nanotube films for photovoltaics produced by ultrasonic spraying

Advanced Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 31, 2009, Pages 3210-3216

  Tenent, Robert C ^a   Barnes, Teresa M ^a   Bergeson, Jeremy D ^a   Ferguson, Andrew J ^a   To, Bobby ^a   Gedvilas, Lynn M ^a   Heben, Michael J ^b   Blackburn, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; HIGH TRANSPARENCY; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYMERIC DERIVATIVES; SINGLE-WALLED; SINGLE-WALLED NANOTUBE; SODIUM CARBOXYMETHYL CELLULOSE; SWNT DISPERSIONS;

CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CELLULOSE; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FILM PREPARATION; SODIUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRASONICS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 69249141373     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200803551     Document Type: Article

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