title: Synthesis of indium nanoclusters and formation of thin film contacts on plastic substrates for organic and flexible electronics applications.
abstract: In this work, we described the processes of synthesizing free-standing indium nanoclusters using inverse micelles and microemulsions as well as synthesizing organic-encapsulated indium nanoclusters using alkanethiols as the organic encapsulants. The synthesized organic-encapsulated indium nanoclusters have demonstrated the feasibilities to be used as plastic compatible soft metal contacts for emerging organic devices. The homogeneously distributed indium nanoclusters with sizes of 10-30 nm have been fabricated on a few different plastic substrates. By changing the alkanethiol carbon chain length and the sizes of the indium nanoclusters, the annealing temperature required to form low-resistance indium thin film conductors has been reduced to 80-100 °C, which is acceptable for a variety of organic thin films.
authors: Nantronics Semiconductor, Incorporated, 7081 Honeycastle Drive, San Ramon, CA 94582, USA.
authors: Frank F
authors: FF
authors: Shi
authors: Michal
authors: M
authors: Bulkowski
authors: K C
authors: KC
authors: Hsieh