High-Quality AZO/Au/AZO Sandwich Film with Ultralow Optical Loss and Resistivity for Transparent Flexible Electrodes

Zhou, Hua; Xie, Jing; Mai, Manfang; Wang, Jing; Shen, Xiangqian; Wang, Shuying; Zhang, Lihua; Kisslinger, Kim; Wang, Hui -Qiong; Zhang, Jinxing; Li, Yu; Deng, Junhong; Ke, Shanming; Zeng, Xierong

doi:10.1021/acsami.8b00685

Title: High-Quality AZO/Au/AZO Sandwich Film with Ultralow Optical Loss and Resistivity for Transparent Flexible Electrodes

Journal Article · Tue Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b00685· OSTI ID:1462418

^[1]; Xie, Jing ^[1]; Mai, Manfang ^[2]; Wang, Jing ^[3]; Shen, Xiangqian ^[4]; Wang, Shuying ^[4]; Zhang, Lihua ^[5]; Kisslinger, Kim ^[5]; Wang, Hui -Qiong ^[6];

^[3]; Li, Yu ^[1]; Deng, Junhong ^[7];

^[1]; Zeng, Xierong ^[1]

Shenzhen Univ., Shenzhen (China)
Foshan Univ., Foshan (China)
Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing (China)
Xinjiang Univ., Urumqi (China)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Xiamen Univ., Xiamen (China)
Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, Shenzhen (China)

Transparent flexible electrodes are in ever-growing demand for modern stretchable optoelectronic devices, such as, display technologies, solar cells, and smart window. Such sandwich-film-electrodes deposited on polymer substrates are unattainable because of the low quality of the films, inducing a relatively large optical loss and resistivity as well as a difficulty in elucidating the interference behavior of light. In this article, we report a high-quality AZO/Au/AZO sandwich film with excellent optoelectronic performance, e.g., an average transmittance of about 81.7% (including the substrate contribution) over the visible range, a sheet resistance of 5 Ω/sq and a figure-of-merit factor of ~55.1. These values are well ahead of those previously reported for sandwich-film-electrodes. Additionally, the interference behaviors of light modulated by the coat and metal layers have been explored with the employment of transmittance spectra and numerical simulations. In particular, a heater device based on an AZO/Au/AZO sandwich film exhibits high performance such as short response time (~5 s) and uniform temperature field. In conclusion, this work provides a deep insight into the improvement of the film quality of the sandwich electrodes and the design of high-performance transparent flexible devices by the application of a flexible substrate with an atomically smooth surface.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1462418

Report Number(s):: BNL-207902-2018-JAAM

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 10, Issue 18; ISSN 1944-8244

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Country of Publication:: United States

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