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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2016
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Lingjie Jay Guo, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Taehee Jang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Sangeon Lee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jinhwan Lee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
Optically transparent, highly conductive conductor materials are provided, which in certain variations may also be flexible. Methods of making transparent conductive conductors, such as electrodes, are also provided. Such a method may include creating a groove pattern on a substrate that defines a two-dimensional array. Then an electrically conductive material may be selectively applied within the groove pattern of the substrate so as to create a transparent conductor (e.g., a transparent conductive electrode (TCE)). The transparent conductor has a sheet resistance of ≤about 5 Ohms/Square and a transmissivity of ≥about 50% for a predetermined range of target wavelengths of electromagnetic energy. Such methods may form linear micromesh conductive arrays and tortuous micromesh conductive arrays that can be used in a variety of optoelectronic applications, including as optically transparent, flexible and mechanically reconfigurable zeroth-order resonant (ZOR) antennas.