Journal article
Highly conductive interwoven carbon nanotube and silver nanowire transparent electrodes
AJ Stapleton, RA Afre, AV Ellis, JG Shapter, GG Andersson, JS Quinton, DA Lewis
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2013
Abstract
Electrodes fabricated using commercially available silver nanowires (AgNWs) and single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) produced sheet resistances in the range 4-24 Ω □-1 with specular transparencies up to 82 %. Increasing the aqueous dispersibility of SWCNTs decreased the bundle size present in the film resulting in improved SWCNT surface dispersion in the films without compromising transparency or sheet resistance. In addition to providing conduction pathways between the AgNW network, the SWCNTs also provide structural support, creating stable self-supporting films. Entanglement of the AgNWs and SWCNTs was demonstrated to occur in solution prior to deposition by monitoring the transverse p..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the CSIRO Future Manufacturing Flagship: Flexible Transparent Electrodes for Plastic Electronics Cluster which includes The University of Queensland, University of Technology, Sydney and Flinders University. We are grateful to the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) for access to the electron microscope facilities.