Journal article
Planar silver nanowire, carbon nanotube and PEDOT:PSS nanocomposite transparent electrodes
AJ Stapleton, SD Yambem, AH Johns, RA Afre, AV Ellis, JG Shapter, GG Andersson, JS Quinton, PL Burn, P Meredith, DA Lewis
Science and Technology of Advanced Materials | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2015
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Abstract
Highly conductive, transparent and flexible planar electrodes were fabricated using interwoven silver nanowires and single-walled carbon nanotubes (AgNW:SWCNT) in a PEDOT:PSS matrix via an epoxy transfer method from a silicon template. The planar electrodes achieved a sheet resistance of 6.6 ± 0.0 Ω/□ and an average transmission of 86% between 400 and 800 nm. A high figure of merit of 367 Ω-1 is reported for the electrodes, which is much higher than that measured for indium tin oxide and reported for other AgNW composites. The AgNW:SWCNT:PEDOT:PSS electrode was used to fabricate low temperature (annealing free) devices demonstrating their potential to function with a range of organic semicon..
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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. The authors acknowledge the facilities, and the scientific and technical assistance, of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility at Flinders University. PM is an Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Research Awardee, PLB is a University of Queensland Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow and AVE is a Flinders University Australian Research Council Future Fellow.