Bromination of Graphene: A New Route to Making High Performance Transparent Conducting Electrodes with Low Optical Losses

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 17692-17699

  Mansour, Ahmed E ^a   Dey, Sukumar ^a   Amassian, Aram ^a   Tanielian, Minas H ^b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

bromine; doping; few layers graphene; graphene; transparent conducting electrodes

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; OPACITY; SHEET RESISTANCE; TRANSPARENCY;

FEW LAYERS GRAPHENE; FIGURE OF MERITS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH TRANSPARENCY; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING ELECTRODES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84939864224     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03274     Document Type: Article

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