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Transparent conducting materials

Flexibility with a metallic skin

Transparent, metallic conducting thin films are key for applications such as flatpanel displays and solar cells, and heavily electron-doped ionic oxide materials have been intensively studied for this purpose. A class of conductors that are transparent in the near-infrared region has now been developed using a topological insulator.

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Figure 1: Topological insulator and transparent metal.

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Hosono, H. Flexibility with a metallic skin. Nature Chem 4, 252–253 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1312

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