Optical haze of transparent and conductive silver nanowire films

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 461-468

  Preston, Colin ^a   Xu, Yunlu ^a,b   Han, Xiaogang ^a   Munday, Jeremy N ^a,b   Hu, Liangbing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

haze factor; light trapping; silver nanowire; solar cell; transparent conducting electrode

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880157308     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0323-9     Document Type: Article

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