Ultrathin transparent conductive polyimide foil embedding silver nanowires

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 20943-20948

  Ghosh, Dhriti Sundar ^a   Chen, Tong Lai ^a   Mkhitaryan, Vahagn ^a   Pruneri, Valerio ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

mechanical flexibility; polyimide; silver nanowires; solution processed; transparent conductors

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; EMBEDDINGS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POLYIMIDES; SILVER; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIN OXIDES;

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL SHEET RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS;

SILVER NANOWIRES;

EID: 84917695096     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am505704e     Document Type: Article

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