Technology update
Jun 26, 2007
New look for transparent nanowires
As indium becomes more rare and expensive, researchers are looking for new metals out of which they can make optically transparent nanowires for applications in flat-panel displays, solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Now, a team from the University of Michigan has shown that it can make such nanowires from tin oxide doped with antimony, using an inexpensive, easily scalable technique. The wires, which are highly conducting, have resistivities of just 4.1 × 10–4 Ωcm and failure current densities up to 2.1 × 107 A/cm2.
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