High-Quality AZO/Au/AZO Sandwich Film with Ultralow Optical Loss and Resistivity for Transparent Flexible Electrodes
Abstract
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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[1];
[3];
[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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1462418
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-207902-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Transparent Flexible Electrodes
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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, and Zeng, Xierong. High-Quality AZO/Au/AZO Sandwich Film with Ultralow Optical Loss and Resistivity for Transparent Flexible Electrodes. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b00685.
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. High-Quality AZO/Au/AZO Sandwich Film with Ultralow Optical Loss and Resistivity for Transparent Flexible Electrodes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b00685
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, and Zeng, Xierong. Tue .
"High-Quality AZO/Au/AZO Sandwich Film with Ultralow Optical Loss and Resistivity for Transparent Flexible Electrodes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b00685. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1462418.
@article{osti_1462418,
title = {High-Quality AZO/Au/AZO Sandwich Film with Ultralow Optical Loss and Resistivity for Transparent Flexible Electrodes},
author = {Zhou, Hua and Xie, Jing and Mai, Manfang and Wang, Jing and Shen, Xiangqian and Wang, Shuying and Zhang, Lihua and Kisslinger, Kim and Wang, Hui -Qiong and Zhang, Jinxing and Li, Yu and Deng, Junhong and Ke, Shanming and Zeng, Xierong},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.8b00685},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
number = 18,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {4}
}
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