Uniform, highly conductive, and patterned transparent films of a percolating silver nanowire network on rigid and flexible substrates using a dry transfer technique

Nano Research

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 564-573

  Madaria, Anuj R ^a   Kumar, Akshay ^a   Ishikawa, Fumiaki N ^a   Zhou, Chongwu ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Ag nanowire; flexible electronics; PDMS transfer; percolation network; transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955578110     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-0017-5     Document Type: Article

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