Fiber laser annealing of indium-tin-oxide nanoparticles for large area transparent conductive layers and optical film characterization

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-38

  Pan, Heng ^a   Lee, Daeho ^a   Ko, Seung Hwan ^a,d   Grigoropoulos, Costas P ^a   Park, Hee K ^b   Hoult, Tony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AppliFlex LLC   (United States)

^c IPG Photonics   (United States)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL FURNACE ANNEALING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT INVESTMENT; FILM CHARACTERIZATIONS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY LASERS; HIGH-POWER; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; INDUSTRIAL IMPLEMENTATION; ITO FILMS; LASER ANNEALING; LASER PARAMETERS; LOW COSTS; NANOPARTICLE FILMS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; PREPARATION METHOD; PROCESSING TEMPERATURE; SOLUTION DEPOSITION; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE LAYER; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; WET CHEMICALS;

ANNEALING; COATINGS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FIBER LASERS; INDIUM; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INVESTMENTS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PROCESSING; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 79959230803     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-011-6397-x     Document Type: Article

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