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Vladimir Bulović. Swartwout, Richard Michael Steuben Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2018-09-17T14:50:43Z 2018-09-17T14:50:43Z 2018 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117813 1051459698 Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-118). Silver nanowire meshes have shown potential for becoming a more robust, flexible alternative to traditional ceramic and brittle metal oxides. However, the current methods employed at making these films are not scalable and the high aspect ratios limit their final use. Spray coating is a technique that is widely used in many industries and has proven effective in many coating applications but continues to be limited by drying defects when used traditionally. A simple modification; pulsed spraying can decouple rheology and chemistry and allow for deposition of more uniform silver nanowire mesh films. Additional processing methods, such as metal mesh compression and matrix infilling with a CVD deposited plastic, Parylene-C, can yield a composite that solves roughness issues present with bare films. By combining all of these methods, a silver nanowire-parylene composite can be fabricated using fully scalable techniques ready for sheet-to-sheet or roll-to-roll processing. The composite is flexible, optically transparent, surface smooth, atmospherically stable and conductive, proving itself as a potential replacement for traditional transparent electrodes. by Richard Michael Steuben Swartwout. S.M. 118 pages eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Smoothing silver nanowires for optoelectronic applications Thesis application/pdf Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="ec382291-ce46-4320-88f3-8d13ec797488"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>Smoothing silver nanowires for optoelectronic applications</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2018</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Swartwout, Richard Michael Steuben</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.</Keyword> <Abstract>Silver nanowire meshes have shown potential for becoming a more robust, flexible alternative to traditional ceramic and brittle metal oxides. However, the current methods employed at making these films are not scalable and the high aspect ratios limit their final use. Spray coating is a technique that is widely used in many industries and has proven effective in many coating applications but continues to be limited by drying defects when used traditionally. A simple modification; pulsed spraying can decouple rheology and chemistry and allow for deposition of more uniform silver nanowire mesh films. Additional processing methods, such as metal mesh compression and matrix infilling with a CVD deposited plastic, Parylene-C, can yield a composite that solves roughness issues present with bare films. By combining all of these methods, a silver nanowire-parylene composite can be fabricated using fully scalable techniques ready for sheet-to-sheet or roll-to-roll processing. The composite is flexible, optically transparent, surface smooth, atmospherically stable and conductive, proving itself as a potential replacement for traditional transparent electrodes.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>