Figures of merit for high-performance transparent electrodes using dip-coated silver nanowire networks

Journal of Nanomaterials

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sepulveda Mora, Sergio B ^a   Cloutier, Sylvain G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE LENGTH; CONDUCTIVITY RATIO; DIP COATING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRICAL-TO-OPTICAL; FIGURES OF MERITS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SILVER NANOWIRES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY;

SHEET RESISTANCE;

EID: 84867874827     PISSN: 16874110     EISSN: 16874129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/286104     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Haacke G., Transparent conducting coatings. Annual Review of Materials Science 1977 7 73 93 2-s2.0-0017677758
2. Granqvist C. G., Transparent conductors as solar energy materials: a panoramic review. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 2007 91 17 1529 1598 2-s2.0-34547899940 10.1016/j.solmat.2007.04.031
3. Hu L., Kim H. S., Lee J. Y., Peumans P., Cui Y., Scalable coating and properties of transparent, flexible, silver nanowire electrodes. ACS Nano 2010 4 5 2955 2963 2-s2.0-77952936230 10.1021/nn1005232
4. Lee J. Y., Connor S. T., Cui Y., Peumans P., Solution-processed metal nanowire mesh transparent electrodes. Nano Letters 2008 8 2 689 692 2-s2.0-40449106707 10.1021/nl073296g
5. Chen Z., Cotterell B., Wang W., The fracture of brittle thin films on compliant substrates in flexible displays. Engineering Fracture Mechanics 2002 69 5 597 603 2-s2.0-0037040743 10.1016/S0013-7944(01)00104-7
6. Geng H. Z., Kim K. K., So K. P., Lee Y. S., Chang Y., Young H. L., Effect of acid treatment on carbon nanotube-based flexible transparent conducting films. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007 129 25 7758 7759 2-s2.0-34347203662 10.1021/ja0722224
7. Barnes T. M., Van De Lagemaat J., Levi D., Rumbles G., Coutts T. J., Weeks C. L., Britz D. A., Levitsky I., Peltola J., Glatkowski P., Optical characterization of highly conductive single-wall carbon-nanotube transparent electrodes. Physical Review B 2007 75 23 2-s2.0-34347368912 10.1103/PhysRevB.75. 235410 235410
8. Andrew Ng M. H., Hartadi L. T., Tan H., Patrick Poa C. H., Efficient coating of transparent and conductive carbon nanotube thin films on plastic substrates. Nanotechnology 2008 19 20 2-s2.0-42449144763 10.1088/0957-4484/19/ 20/205703 205703
9. Vollmer A., Feng X. L., Wang X., Zhi L. J., Müllen K., Koch N., Rabe J. P., Electronic and structural properties of graphene-based transparent and conductive thin film electrodes. Applied Physics A 2009 94 1 1 4 2-s2.0-56349167481 10.1007/s00339-008-4931-2
10. Pimparkar N., Chowalla M., Alam M. A., Device optimization for organic photovoltaics with cnt networks as transparent electrode. Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference 2008
11. Contreras M. A., Barnes T., Van De Lagemaat J., Rumbles G., Coutts T. J., Weeks C., Glatkowski P., Levitsky I., Peltola J., Britz D. A., Replacement of transparent conductive oxides by single-wall carbon nanotubes in Cu(In,Ga)Se2-based solar cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007 111 38 14045 14048 2-s2.0-35148886359 10.1021/jp075507b
12. Wang X., Zhi L., Müllen K., Transparent, conductive graphene electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Nano Letters 2008 8 1 323 327 2-s2.0-38749112127 10.1021/nl072838r
13. Wu J., Becerril H. A., Bao Z., Liu Z., Chen Y., Peumans P., Organic solar cells with solution-processed graphene transparent electrodes. Applied Physics Letters 2008 92 26 2-s2.0-46649086747 10.1063/1.2924771 263302
14. Wu H., Hu L., Rowell M. W., Kong D., Cha J. J., McDonough J. R., Zhu J., Yang Y., McGehee M. D., Cui Y., Electrospun metal nanofiber webs as high-performance transparent electrode. Nano Letters 2010 10 10 4242 4248 2-s2.0-77958051601 10.1021/nl102725k
15. Wang Y., Feng T., Wang K., Qian M., Chen Y., Sun Z., A facile method for preparing transparent, conductive, and paper-like silver nanowire films. Journal of Nanomaterials 2011 2011 5 10.1155/2011/935218 935218
16. Madaria A. R., Kumar A., Ishikawa F. N., Zhou C., Uniform, highly conductive, and patterned transparent films of a percolating silver nanowire network on rigid and flexible substrates using a dry transfer technique. Nano Research 2010 3 8 564 573 2-s2.0-77955578110 10.1007/s12274-010-0017-5
17. Madaria A. R., Kumar A., Zhou C., Large scale, highly conductive and patterned transparent films of silver nanowires on arbitrary substrates and their application in touch screens. Nanotechnology 2011 22 24 2-s2.0-79955847396 10.1088/0957-4484/22/24/245201 245201
18. Akter T., Kim W. S., Reversibly stretchable transparent conductive coatings of spray-deposited silver nanowires. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2012 4 1855 1859
19. van de Groep J., Spinelli P., Polman A., Transparent conducting silver nanowire networks. Nano Letters 2012 12 6 3138 3144
20. De S., Higgins T. M., Lyons P. E., Doherty E. M., Nirmalraj P. N., Blau W. J., Boland J. J., Coleman J. N., Silver nanowire networks as flexible, transparent, conducting films: extremely high DC to optical conductivity ratios. ACS Nano 2009 3 7 1767 1774 2-s2.0-68749098686 10.1021/nn900348c
21. Morgenstern F. S. F., Kabra D., Massip S., Brenner T. J. K., Lyons P. E., Coleman J. N., Friend R. H., Ag-nanowire films coated with zno nanoparticles as a transparent electrode for solar cells. Applied Physics Letters 2011 99 183307
22. Zhu R., Chung C.-H., Cha K. C., Fused silver nanowires with metal oxide nanoparticles and organic polymers for highly transparent conductors. ACS Nano 2011 5 12 9877 9882
23. Azulai D., Belenkova T., Gilon H., Barkay Z., Markovich G., Transparent metal nanowire thin films prepared in mesostructured templates. Nano Letters 2009 9 12 4246 4249 2-s2.0-71949086500 10.1021/nl902458j
24. Yu Z., Li L., Zhang Q., Hu W., Pei Q., Silver nanowire-polymer composite electrodes for efficient polymer solar cells. Advanced Materials 2011 23 4453 4457
25. Li L., Yu Z., Hu W., Chang C. h., Chen Q., Pei Q., Efficient flexible phosphorescent polymer light-emitting diodes based on silver nanowirepolymer composite. Advanced Materials 2011 23 5563 5567
26. Zeng X. Y., Zhang Q. K., Yu R. M., Lu C. Z., A new transparent conductor: silver nanowire film buried at the surface of a transparent polymer. Advanced Materials 2010 22 40 4484 4488 2-s2.0-78149450630 10.1002/adma.201001811
27. Leem D.-S., Edwards A., Faist M., Nelson J., Bradley D. D. C., de Mello J. C., Efficient organic solar cells with solution-processed silver nanowire electrodes. Advanced Materials 2011 23 4371 4375
28. Lee J. Y., Connor S. T., Cui Y., Peumans P., Semitransparent organic photovoltaic cells with laminated top electrode. Nano Letters 2010 10 4 1276 1279 2-s2.0-77951048058 10.1021/nl903892x
29. Tian H., Xie D., Yang Y., Flexible, ultrathin, and transparent sound-emitting devices using silver nanowires film. Applied Physics Letters 2011 99 253507
30. Zhang Z., Chen X., Yang H., Fu H., Xiao F., Electrically conductive adhesives with sintered silver nanowires. Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging (ICEPT-HDP '09) August 2009 834 837 2-s2.0-70449813022 10.1109/ICEPT.2009. 5270629
31. Dressel M., Gruner G., Electrodynamics of Solids: Optical Properties of Electrons in Matter 2002 Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press
32. Haacke G., New figure of merit for transparent conductors. Journal of Applied Physics 1976 47 9 4086 4089 2-s2.0-0016992850 10.1063/1.323240