Silver nanowire-indium zinc oxide composite flexible transparent conducting electrodes made by spin-coating and photonic curing
Abstract
Flexible transparent conducting electrodes (TCE) play a critical role in modern technologies. Eliminating the high-temperature annealing of vacuum- or solution-deposited films will increase production throughput and lower the cost of the final products. Photonic curing uses intense pulses of broadband light to induce material transformations instead of heat. In this work, we combine solution deposition and photonic curing, replacing thermal annealing, to fabricate flexible composite TCE films on plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. The composite TCE films are composed of spin-coated silver nanowire-indium zinc oxide layers. Further, the TCE films’ electrical, optical, and morphological properties are investigated and compared to those of commercially available PET/TCE. A sheet resistance of 15 Ω/sq and an average transmittance from 400 – 700 nm of 77% are achieved with the spin-coated and photonic-cured composite flexible TCE films.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; Texas Instruments
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1908822
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0009518
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- MRS Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2059-8521
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; flexible; transparent conductor; photonic; annealing; sol-gel; oxide; solution deposition
Citation Formats
Piper, Robert T., Xu, Weijie, and Hsu, Julia W. P. Silver nanowire-indium zinc oxide composite flexible transparent conducting electrodes made by spin-coating and photonic curing. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.1557/s43580-022-00478-x.
Piper, Robert T., Xu, Weijie, & Hsu, Julia W. P. Silver nanowire-indium zinc oxide composite flexible transparent conducting electrodes made by spin-coating and photonic curing. United States. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-022-00478-x
Piper, Robert T., Xu, Weijie, and Hsu, Julia W. P. Thu .
"Silver nanowire-indium zinc oxide composite flexible transparent conducting electrodes made by spin-coating and photonic curing". United States. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-022-00478-x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1908822.
@article{osti_1908822,
title = {Silver nanowire-indium zinc oxide composite flexible transparent conducting electrodes made by spin-coating and photonic curing},
author = {Piper, Robert T. and Xu, Weijie and Hsu, Julia W. P.},
abstractNote = {Flexible transparent conducting electrodes (TCE) play a critical role in modern technologies. Eliminating the high-temperature annealing of vacuum- or solution-deposited films will increase production throughput and lower the cost of the final products. Photonic curing uses intense pulses of broadband light to induce material transformations instead of heat. In this work, we combine solution deposition and photonic curing, replacing thermal annealing, to fabricate flexible composite TCE films on plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. The composite TCE films are composed of spin-coated silver nanowire-indium zinc oxide layers. Further, the TCE films’ electrical, optical, and morphological properties are investigated and compared to those of commercially available PET/TCE. A sheet resistance of 15 Ω/sq and an average transmittance from 400 – 700 nm of 77% are achieved with the spin-coated and photonic-cured composite flexible TCE films.},
doi = {10.1557/s43580-022-00478-x},
journal = {MRS Advances},
number = 5,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2023},
month = {Thu Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2023}
}
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