Electrical sintering of silver nanoparticle ink studied by In-situ TEM probing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hummelgård, Magnus ^a   Zhang, Renyun ^a   Nilsson, Hans Erik ^a   Olin, Håkan ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INK; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; CARBON; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CARBONIZATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; HEAT TREATMENT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; AIR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROPLATING INDUSTRY; EVALUATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SYNTHESIS;

AIR; CARBON; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; ELECTROPLATING; INK; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SILVER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952095106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017209     Document Type: Article

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