Highly thermostable, flexible, transparent, and conductive films on polyimide substrate with an AZO/AgNW/AZO structure

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4299-4305

  Huang, Qijin ^a   Shen, Wenfeng ^a   Fang, Xingzhong ^a   Chen, Guofei ^a   Yang, Ye ^a   Huang, Jinhua ^a   Tan, Ruiqin ^b   Song, Weijie ^a  

^a NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

mechanical flexibility; thermal stability; transparent conductive films; transparent polyimide substrate

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POLYIMIDES; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SILVER NANOWIRES; STABILITY; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE;

ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; FLEXIBLE TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTY; POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS; TRANSPARENT POLYIMIDES;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS;

EID: 84923805896     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508704u     Document Type: Article

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