Nanowires: Solution‐Grown Silver Nanowire Ordered Arrays as Transparent Electrodes (Adv. Mater. 5/2016)

Ordered arrays of metal nanowires are employed as transparent electrodes by E. C. Garnett and co-workers, as described on page 905. The subwavelength dimensions enable high transmittance, while the metal allows for low sheet resistance. The growth of crystalline silver in solution leads to a larger grain size than in evaporated films, which reduces electron scattering and increases the conductivity by a factor of 2–3, approaching that of bulk silver.