Direct writing on paper of foldable capacitive touch pads with silver nanowire inks

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 21721-21729

  Li, Ruo Zhou ^a,b   Hu, Anming ^a   Zhang, Tong ^b   Oakes, Ken D ^c  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

direct writing; flexible electronics; paper; silver nanowire inks; touch sensors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COSTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; PAPER; SINTERING; SUBSTRATES;

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; DIRECT WRITING; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; EASY FABRICATION; PROGRAMMABLE PLATFORMS; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; THERMAL SINTERING; TOUCH SENSORS;

SILVER NANOWIRES;

INK; PAPER; SENSORS; SILVER;

EID: 84917675897     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506987w     Document Type: Article

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