US Patent 7849424 - Computer aided design of nanowire transparent film

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This patent from Cambrios Technologies Corporation teaches CAD techniques used to optimize the electrical conductivity and transparency of nanowire thin films. Claim 1 reads:

1. A method for controlling a process of fabricating a transparent conductor film having nanowires, the method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, an input specification of a physical characteristic of the transparent conductor film;

comparing, by the processor, the input specification to stored reference data correlating a physical characteristic of reference transparent conductor films to a physical characteristic of reference nanowires;

generating a manufacturing specification that correlates a target physical characteristic of the nanowires to the input specification; and

controlling a physical characteristic of the nanowires of the transparent conductor film based on the manufacturing specification.