Conductivity control of as-grown branched indium tin oxide nanowire networks

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Laforge, J M ^a   Cocker, T L ^a,c   Beaudry, A L ^a   Cui, K ^b   Tucker, R T ^a   Taschuk, M T ^a   Hegmann, F A ^a   Brett, M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

branched nanowires; conductivity; indium tin oxide; nanowires; THz time domain spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LASER PULSES; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY; PROBES; SPECTROSCOPY; TIN;

BRANCHED NANOWIRES; FOUR-POINT PROBE TECHNIQUES; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; MATERIAL CONDUCTIVITIES; NANOSCALE CONDUCTIVITY; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; THZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84896525189     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/3/035701     Document Type: Article

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