Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 574-578

  Bae, Sukang ^a   Kim, Hyeongkeun ^a,b   Lee, Youngbin ^a   Xu, Xiangfan ^c   Park, Jae Sung ^e   Zheng, Yi ^c   Balakrishnan, Jayakumar ^c   Lei, Tian ^a   Ri Kim, Hye ^b   Song, Young Il ^d   Kim, Young Jin ^a,b   Kim, Kwang S ^e   Özyilmaz, Barbaros ^c   Ahn, Jong Hyun ^a,b   Hong, Byung Hee ^a,b   Iijima, Sumio ^a,f,g  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^e Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^g MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; INDIUM TIN OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FILM; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 77956430820     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.132     Document Type: Article

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