Crystalline Nanojoining Silver Nanowire Percolated Networks on Flexible Substrate

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 10018-10031

  Nian, Qiong ^a,b   Saei, Mojib ^a,b   Xu, Yang ^b,c   Sabyasachi, Ganguli ^d   Deng, Biwei ^a,b   Chen, Yong P ^b,c   Cheng, Gary J ^a,b  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

junction; laser plasmonic welding; percolation; roll to roll printing; silver nanowire

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PLASMONS; PRINTING; PULSED LASERS; SILVER; SOLVENTS; WELDING;

CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FIRST PRINCIPLE SIMULATION; JUNCTION; NANOSCALE INTEGRATION; RECRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; ROLL TO ROLL; SILVER NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84945934668     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03601     Document Type: Article

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