Silver nanowire network transparent electrodes with highly enhanced flexibility by welding for application in flexible organic light-emitting diodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7846-7855

  Cheong, Hahn Gil ^a   Triambulo, Ross E ^a   Lee, Gun Hwan ^b   Yi, In Sook ^c   Park, Jin Woo ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Material Science   (South Korea)

^c RandD Center InkTec Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ag nanowires; flexible OLED; interface; ITO; transparent conductive electrode

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOWIRES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); SILVER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WELDING;

AG NANOWIRES; ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTS; ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS; FLEXIBLE OLED; FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ITO; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES;

WELDING ELECTRODES;

EID: 84901661703     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5011354     Document Type: Article

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