Correlated metals as transparent conductors

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 204-210

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhou, Yuanjun ^b   Guo, Lu ^a,d   Zhao, Weiwei ^a   Barnes, Anna ^c   Zhang, Hai Tian ^a   Eaton, Craig ^a   Zheng, Yuanxia ^a   Brahlek, Matthew ^a   Haneef, Hamna F ^c   Podraza, Nikolas J ^c   Chan, Moses H W ^a   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^a   Rabe, Karin M ^b   Engel Herbert, Roman ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTING; METALS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TIN OXIDES; TRANSPARENCY;

CARRIER EFFECTIVE MASS; ELECTRON INTERACTION; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; SOLID STATE LIGHTING; TIN DOPED INDIUM OXIDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS; WIDE-BAND-GAP SEMICONDUCTOR;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

EID: 84955750460     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4493     Document Type: Article

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