Nanoscale joule heating and electromigration enhanced ripening of silver nanowire contacts

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2804-2811

  Song, Tze Bin ^a,b   Chen, Yu ^a,b   Chung, Choong Heui ^a,b,c   Yang, Yang ^a   Bob, Brion ^a,b   Duan, Hsin Sheng ^a,b   Li, Gang ^a   Tu, King Ning ^a   Huang, Yu ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Hanbat National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

elecromigration; joule heating; polymer solar cell; ripening; silver nanowire; solution process; transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMIGRATION; JOULE HEATING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLAR CELLS; WELDING ELECTRODES;

ELECROMIGRATION; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; RIPENING; SILVER NANOWIRES; SOLUTION PROCESS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84896931022     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4065567     Document Type: Article

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