Performance enhancement of metal nanowire transparent conducting electrodes by mesoscale metal wires

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hsu, Po Chun ^a   Wang, Shuang ^a   Wu, Hui ^a,c   Narasimhan, Vijay K ^a   Kong, Desheng ^a   Ryoung Lee, Hye ^a   Cui, Yi ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; OXIDE; POLYMER;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSPINNING; HYBRID; SIMULATION;

EID: 84885104523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3522     Document Type: Article

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