Laser sintering silver nanowires (2012)

Direct-wright pulsed laser processed silver nanowire networks for transparent conducting electrodes:
Published in Applied Physics A in 2012

In this work, we demonstrate a direct-write refining technique in which a solution-processed nanowire network, deposited by spin coating, is exposed to monochromatic UV pulsed laser processing near a plasmonic resonance. Our results exhibit a 75 % reduction in surface resistance along with marginal improvements in optical transparency. The local nature of the laser technique enables direct-write or large area processing on a variety of substrates including flexible, and organic materials.