Nanowires-based transparent conductors

US10580549B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cambrios Film Solutons Corporation · VG

Inventors

• Jonathan S. Alden · Mountain View, US
• Haixia Dai · San Jose, US
• Michael R. Knapp · Emerald Hills, US
• Shuo Na · San Jose, US
• Hash Pakbaz · Bloomingdale, US
• Florian Pschenitzka · San Francisco, US
• Xina Quan · Saratoga, US
• Michael A. Spaid · Mountain View, US
• Adrian Winoto · San Francisco, US
• Jeffrey Wolk · Rue de l'Église, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 15, 2018
• Grant date: Mar 3, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 15, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/762
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method of fabricating a transparent conductor includes the following steps. The first step is drawing a substrate from a first reel to a second reel along a travelling path, and along the travelling path. Next step is forming a metal nanowire dispersion layer on the substrate and then drying the metal nanowire dispersion layer to form a metal nanowire network layer. Next step is forming a matrix layer on the metal nanowire network layer so as to form a conductive layer of the metal nanowire network layer embedded in the matrix layer.