Mechanistic studies on sintering of silver nanoparticles

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4634-4640

  Volkman, Steven K ^a   Yin, Shong ^a   Bakhishev, Teymur ^a   Puntambekar, Kanan ^a   Subramanian, Vivek ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

inkjet printing; silver; sinter; solution processing; thin film

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITE GROWTH; CRYSTALLITE ORIENTATION; DIGESTIVE RIPENING; GRAIN SIZE; GRAZING INCIDENCE; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SINTER; SINTERING PROCESS; SOLUTION PROCESSING; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; THIOLATES;

AGGLOMERATION; COALESCENCE; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; MOISTURE; NANOPARTICLES; SINTERING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SILVER;

EID: 80054737349     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm202561u     Document Type: Article

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