Copper nanowires as fully transparent conductive electrodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Guo, Huizhang ^a   Lin, Na ^a   Chen, Yuanzhi ^a   Wang, Zhenwei ^a   Xie, Qingshui ^a   Zheng, Tongchang ^a   Gao, Na ^a   Li, Shuping ^a   Kang, Junyong ^a   Cai, Duanjun ^a   Peng, Dong Liang ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84881341940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02323     Document Type: Article

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