We report an effective method for fabricating highly transparent and stretchable large-area conducting films based on a directional arrangement of silver nanowires (AgNWs) driven by a shear force in a microliter-scale solution process. The thin conducting films with parallel AgNWs or cross-junctions of AgNWs are deposited on the coating substrate by dragging a microliter drop of the coating solution trapped between two plates. The optical and electrical properties of the AgNW thin films are finely tuned by varying the simple systematic parameters in the coating process. The transparent thin films with AgNW cross-junctions exhibit the superior electrical conductivity with a sheet resistance of 10 Ω sq(-1) at a transmittance of 85% (λ = 550 nm), which is well described by the high ratio of DC to optical conductivity of 276 and percolation theory in a two-dimensional matrix model. This simple coating method enables the deposition of AgNW thin films with high optical transparency, flexibility, and stretchability directly on plastic substrates.
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