Nanonet thin film -- composed of randomly oriented stick-network of carbon nanotubes and/or metallic nanowires-- is an exciting new material with interesting electronic, optical, chemical, and mechanical properties. The material has the potential for applications in a wide variety of flexible electronics systems, including electronics, solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors, etc. Most importantly, the material offers us an opportunity to explore neo-classical transport theories involving percolation, fractals geometry, etc. that we hope will eventually define the theoretical foundation of carrier transport in random nanostructured material for next generation of devices. If you are just getting started, you may find the following references relevant.
A review paper on macroelectronics
Review of Nanonet thin films in chemical review
Review article in Advanced Materials
Review article in Chem Soc Rev
Nature review paper
flexible electronics paper
Tutorials: Nanostructured Electronic Devices -- Percolation/Reliability
A wonderful collection of Percolation thresholds for variety of lattices
A very comprehensive article on percolation theory published in RMP
Percolation threshold and exponents of various-sized objects PRE
Explosive Percolation: When repeated small-scale intervention delays the onset of percolation
R. D'Souza and J. Nagler, Nature Physics, 11, 531, 2015.
a. Growth and Synthesis Model for Nanotubes
b. Lattice directed growth model -- Equilibrium theory, another paper
c. Vertically aligned nanotubes on graphene substrate
c. Dispersion in fluid --- Physics of dispersion
d. Ultracentrifuge-based sorting of semiconducting and metallic tubes
a. Ballistic vs. diffusion transport (long channel length scaling).
b. Percolative theory of nanonets
c. Short vs. long channel devices
d. Theory of percolation in short channel transistors
e. Noise and heterogeneity due to tube-tube contacts
f. Theory of striping -- Electronics, display, and ink-jet printing
g. Percolation redefines mobility
g. Stick dispersion in polymers
h. Theory of multi-electrode transistors.
i. High-performance circuits with aligned tubes
k. Application of CNT-nets for flexible electronics
l. Transport in Sintered SiNW nanonets [C. Ternon et al., Advanced Electron. 2015.
m. Multi-fractal Voltage distribution in a resistor network [http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/pubs/pdf/conduction.pdf]
n. Geometrical quantized conductance in nanotube network (Nanoscale, 6, 13535, 2014).
Array transistor tolerant to metallic tubes
Array transistors with multiple transfer
Simulation tools:
Stick2D focuses on percolation characteristics
Nanonet focuses on electrical and thermal transport in nanonets
Fractional calculation for transport in complex media, 2014. RMP
a. Transport in single CNTs
b. Thermal percolation in nanotube network
c. Electrothermal transport in CNTs.
d. Electro-thermal breakdown in percolating network
e. Nanowire coated Textile, Nanoletters, 2015
Simulation tools:
Nanonet focuses on electrical and thermal transport in nanonets
a. Basics of optical properties of nanonet transistors
b. Optimization of opto-electronic transport
c. Electro-optic properties of polycrystalline graphene
For a thorough and thoughtful review of the TCO, see CTG Granqvist, Sol Eng. Mat. and Sol. Cells, 91, 1529, 2007.
a. Chemical sensors for e-nose applications
b. Percolation theory of chemical detection
c. Biosensors and diffusion towards fractal surfaces
d. Repeatability of nanonet e-nose sensors
e. Diagnosis and classification of 17 diseases by using nanotube e-nose sensors
a. Strain sensors with graphene patch network another paper
a. Hall Effect in Percolating Systems
(J.P. Stanley, PRB, 38, 11639, 1988; T. Nagatani, J. Phys. A: Math Gen. 19 2781, 1986. )
b. Extraordinary Magnetic Resistance in a copercolating system. http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.212404
c. Nonsaturating magneto resistance, M. M. Parish & P. B. Littlewood, Nature, 2003.
a. Theory of nanotube-based percolation doping
b. Experimental validation of copercolation doping
c. Application of co-percolation doped NW
d. SuperJoule heating in copercolating network
f. Grain-boundary percolating network (Nature Comm. 2014)
g. Atomic origin of grain-boundary resistance in grapehene (Pop, Estrada, ACS Nano, 2011 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nn302064p
h. Grain boundary used as a memory devices. http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v10/n5/pdf/nnano.2015.56.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/45/18076.full.pdf
i. Resistive heating of grain boundaries: PDF
j. The role of Oxygen in the growth of large single crystal graphene on Cu [Y. Hao, 342, 720, Science, 2013].
a. Handbook of 3D integration: Edited by P. Garrou, C. Bower, and P. Ramm, Wiley
a. Degradation mechanism of a junction-free transparent silver network electrode, K. Cheuk, K. Pei and P. K.Chan, RCS Advances, 2016.
a. Degradation mechanism of a junction-free transparent silver network electrode, K. Cheuk, K. Pei and P. K.Chan, RCS Advances, 2016.
Computational Model for Nanotube-Based Composites
Mechanical percolation
Mechanical properties of CNT/polymer composites
Percolation and PUF
Other groups
Software
Extracting network geometry