Optical, structural, and electrical properties of PEDOT: PSS thin films doped with silver nanoprisms

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2525-2534

  Cao, Zhixiong ^a,b   Chen, Zhuoying ^c,d   Escoubas, Ludovic ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PRECIOUS METALS; SHEET RESISTANCE; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CONDUCTIVE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDUCTIVE THIN FILMS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; POLY(STYRENE SULFONATE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES;

SILVER;

EID: 84920116209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.4.002525     Document Type: Article

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