Consistent melting behavior induced by Joule heating between Ag microwire and nanowire meshes

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Tsuchiya, Kaoru ^a   Li, Yuan ^a   Saka, Masumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ag microwire nanowire mesh; Consistent feature; Figure of merit; Joule heating; Melting behavior; Transparent conductive electrode

Indexed keywords

JOULE HEATING; MESH GENERATION; NANOWIRES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

CONSISTENT FEATURE; FIGURE OF MERITS; MELTING BEHAVIOR; MICROWIRE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES;

MELTING;

EID: 84903987160     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-239     Document Type: Article

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