Aerosol-synthesized SWCNT networks with tunable conductivity and transparency by a dry transfer technique

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4349-4355

  Kaskela, Antti ^a   Nasibulin, Albert G ^a   Timmermans, Marina Y ^a   Aitchison, Brad ^b   Papadimitratos, Alexios ^c   Tian, Ying ^a   Zhu, Zhen ^a   Jiang, Hua ^a   Brown, David P ^b   Zakhidov, Anvar ^d   Kauppinen, Esko I ^a,e  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Canatu Ltd   (Finland)

^c Solarno Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; ITO replacement; OLED; thin film; transistor; transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALLY DOPED; CVD PROCESS; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; ITO REPLACEMENT; NETWORK-BASED; OLED; OPTICAL TRANSMITTANCE; TOUCH SENSORS; TRANSFER TECHNIQUE; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; TUNABLE CONDUCTIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS;

OPACITY;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AEROSOLS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78449285746     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl101680s     Document Type: Article

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