Air-stable, nanostructured electronic and plasmonic materials from solution-processable, silver nanocrystal building blocks

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2746-2754

  Fafarman, Aaron T ^a,c   Hong, Sung Hoon ^a,d   Oh, Soong Ju ^a   Caglayan, Humeyra ^a,e   Ye, Xingchen ^b   Diroll, Benjamin T ^b   Engheta, Nader ^a,b   Murray, Christopher B ^a   Kagan, Cherie R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

^d Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^e ABDULLAH GUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ammonium thiocyanate; conductivity; dielectric function; electrodes; ligand exchange; metamaterials; nanoimprinting; printing; silver nanoparticles; soft lithography

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; METAMATERIALS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; PLASMONS; PRINTING; SINTERING;

AMMONIUM THIOCYANATE; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; LIGAND EXCHANGES; NANO-IMPRINTING; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY;

SILVER;

EID: 84896991135     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406461p     Document Type: Article

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