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Introduction to Transparent Conductive Films

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Graphene for Transparent Conductors

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Transparent conductive films (TCFs), which are optically transparent and electrically conductive thin layers, are necessary components in many modern devices. The applications of TCFs and the traditional TCF materials including transparent conducting oxides, transparent conducting polymers, transparent conducting metals, and transparent conducting carbon, are discussed in this chapter. A most lately emerging candidate to replace the commonly used indium tin oxide (ITO) is graphene, which shows a higher transparency over a wider wavelength range than ITO, SWNTs, and thin metallic films.

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Zheng, Q., Kim, JK. (2015). Introduction to Transparent Conductive Films. In: Graphene for Transparent Conductors., vol 23. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2769-2_1

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