Electrical conductivity of nanorod-based transparent electrodes: Comparison of mean-field approaches

Electrical conductivity of random metallic nanowire networks: an analytical consideration along with computer simulation

“…Additional technical details can be found elsewhere. 32,47 The computer experiments were repeated 100 times for each value of the number density. The error bars in the figures correspond to the standard deviation of the mean.…”

“…On the other hand, the electrical conductivity of random nanowire networks may be treated theoretically when using a range of different approaches, e.g., percolation theory, 27 effective medium theory, 9 geometrical consideration, [28][29][30] or meanfield approximation. 31,32 However, analytical formulas often contain some adjustable parameters, and their derivation is not always based on rigorously proven assumptions.…”

Random 2D nanowire networks: Finite-size effect and the effect of busbar/nanowire contact resistance on their electrical conductivity

“…In our own recent computations, the busbar/wire resistance was 0, so the consistency of the computations and the MFA predictions was provided without any correction factor being required. 9 In the case of nanoring-based films, when the junction resistance dominates over the wire resistance while the busbar/nanowire contact resistance and the junction resistance are of the same order of magnitude, the MFA significantly overestimates the electrical conductivity when compared to the computations. 7 Thus, the contribution of the busbar/wire resistance to the sheet resistance seems to be important.…”

“…This review should be extended by some recently published works devoted to nanostick-and nanowirebased random 2D networks. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Ref. 2 proposed a closedform approximation of the functional dependence of the effective resistance (R 0 ) of 2D random networks of zerowidth stick nanowires on their physical parameters…”

“…Since details of the computer simulation have been described previously, [7][8][9]14 we present in Sec. II A only a brief sketch using the nanoring-based system as an example.…”