Journal article
Pathway to high throughput, low cost indium-free transparent electrodes
AJ Stapleton, S Yambem, AH Johns, CT Gibson, CJ Shearer, AV Ellis, JG Shapter, GG Andersson, JS Quinton, PL Burn, P Meredith, DA Lewis
Journal of Materials Chemistry A | ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta03248b
Abstract
A roll-to-roll compatible, high throughput process is reported for the production of highly conductive, transparent planar electrode comprising an interwoven network of silver nanowires and single walled carbon nanotubes imbedded into poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS). The planar electrode has a sheet resistance of between 4 and 7 Ω □-1 and a transmission of >86% between 800 and 400 nm with a figure of merit of between 344 and 400 Ω-1. The nanocomposite electrode is highly flexible and retains a low sheet resistance after bending at a radius of 5 mm for up to 500 times without loss. Organic photovoltaic devices containing the planar nanocomposite electrodes h..
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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 & 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.