Provided herein is a device for forming a conductive film. The device includes a deposition device and an air supply. The deposition device is configured to form a wet film having conductive nanostructures and a fluid carrier on a web. The web is moved in a first direction while forming the wet film. The air supply is disposed at a side of the web and configured to apply an air flow onto the wet film. The air flow is directed onto the wet film in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to reorient a direction of some conductive nanostructures in the wet film to define reoriented conductive nanostructures.

A resonant coil with integrated capacitance includes at least one separation dielectric layer and a plurality of conductor layers stacked in an alternating manner. Each of the plurality of conductor layers includes a first conductor sublayer and second conductor sublayer having common orientation and a sublayer dielectric layer separating the first and second conductor sublayers. Adjacent conductor layers of the plurality of conductor layers have different orientations.

Highly uniform and thin silver nanowires are described having average diameters below 20 nm and a small standard deviation of the diameters. The silver nanowires have a high aspect ratio. The silver nanowires can be characterized by a small number of nanowires having a diameter greater than 18 nm as well as with a blue shifted narrow absorption spectrum in a dilute solution. Methods are described to allow for the synthesis of the narrow uniform silver nanowires. Transparent conductive films formed from the thin, uniform silver nanowires can have very low levels of haze and low values of ΔL*, the diffusive luminosity, such that the transparent conductive films can provide little alteration of the appearance of a black background.

Highly uniform and thin silver nanowires are described having average diameters below 20 nm and a small standard deviation of the diameters. The silver nanowires have a high aspect ratio. The silver nanowires can be characterized by a small number of nanowires having a diameter greater than 18 nm as well as with a blue shifted narrow absorption spectrum in a dilute solution. Methods are described to allow for the synthesis of the narrow uniform silver nanowires. Transparent conductive films formed from the thin, uniform silver nanowires can have very low levels of haze and low values of ΔL*, the diffusive luminosity, such that the transparent conductive films can provide little alteration of the appearance of a black background.

A method for producing solder particles, which includes: a preparation step wherein a base material that has a plurality of recesses and solder fine particles are prepared; an accommodation step wherein at least some of the solder fine particles are accommodated in the recesses; and a fusing step wherein the solder fine particles accommodated in the recesses are fused, thereby forming solder particles within the recesses. With respect to this method for producing solder particles, the average particle diameter of the solder particles is from 1 μm to 30 μm; and the C.V. value of the solder particles is 20% or less.

The invention relates to a clad wire (1) for producing test needles or sliding contacts having a wire core (2) made of rhodium or a rhodium-based alloy, an inner cladding (3) made of copper or silver or aluminum or a copper-based alloy or a silver-based alloy or an aluminum-based alloy, wherein the inner cladding (3) covers or completely encloses the wire core (2) on at least two opposite sides, an adhesion-promoting layer (5) made of gold or a gold-based alloy, which is arranged between the wire core (2) and the inner cladding (3), and an outer cladding (4) made of a metal or a metal alloy having a greater hardness than the material of the inner cladding (3), wherein the outer cladding (4) encloses the inner cladding (3). The invention also relates to a method for producing a clad wire and to a test needle having at least one clad wire (1) or produced from a clad wire (1) and a test needle array having a plurality of test needles spaced apart from one another and a sliding contact having a plurality of clad wires (1) or produced from a clad wire (1).

The invention relates to a clad wire (1) for producing test needles or sliding contacts having a wire core (2) made of rhodium or a rhodium-based alloy, an inner cladding (3) made of copper or silver or aluminum or a copper-based alloy or a silver-based alloy or an aluminum-based alloy, wherein the inner cladding (3) covers or completely encloses the wire core (2) on at least two opposite sides, an adhesion-promoting layer (5) made of gold or a gold-based alloy, which is arranged between the wire core (2) and the inner cladding (3), and an outer cladding (4) made of a metal or a metal alloy having a greater hardness than the material of the inner cladding (3), wherein the outer cladding (4) encloses the inner cladding (3). The invention also relates to a method for producing a clad wire and to a test needle having at least one clad wire (1) or produced from a clad wire (1) and a test needle array having a plurality of test needles spaced apart from one another and a sliding contact having a plurality of clad wires (1) or produced from a clad wire (1).

Electronic devices having one or more platinum-based electrodes and methods of producing the same. Such an electronic device includes a platinum-based electrode having a protective layer thereon that includes graphene in an amount effective to reduce platinum corrosion of the electrode.

A ground cable may comprise a plurality of strands. Inner core strands of the cable may be surrounded by an adjacent outermost layer or wrap of outer wrap strands. The outer wrap of strands may comprise at least one indicator strand, which may comprise an indicator finish on a portion of its surface. A characteristic of the indicator finish may change when exposed to a current level that exceeds an electrical fault threshold.

The present invention provides a composite material having excellent dispersibility in a solvent and increased conductivity. The composite material comprises a carbon material and a conductive dispersant physically or chemically bonded to the carbon material, the conductive dispersant is constituted by a conductive polymer, and the conductive polymer has a number average molecular weight of 2000 or more and 100000 or less.