Highly transparent Au-coated ag nanowire transparent electrode with reduction in haze

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 13527-13534

  Kim, Taegeon ^a   Canlier, Ali ^a,b   Cho, Changsoon ^a   Rozyyev, Vepa ^a   Lee, Jung Yong ^a   Han, Seung Min ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b ABDULLAH GUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Au coated Ag nanowire; galvanic exchange; haze; oxidation resistance; transparent electrode

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOWIRES; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; SHEET RESISTANCE; SILVER; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AG NANOWIRES; DISPLAY APPLICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; GALVANIC DISPLACEMENT REACTIONS; GALVANIC EXCHANGE; HAZE; POLYCARBONATE SUBSTRATES; SCATTERING CHAR-ACTERISTICS;

TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

EID: 84906818914     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502632t     Document Type: Article

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