Highly flexible and transparent conducting silver nanowire/ZnO composite film for organic solar cells

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1370-1379

  Song, Myungkwan ^a   Park, Jong Hyun ^b   Kim, Chang Su ^a   Kim, Dong Ho ^a   Kang, Yong Cheol ^c   Jin, Sung Ho ^d   Jin, Won Yong ^e   Kang, Jae Wook ^e  

^a Korea Institute of Material Science   (South Korea)

^b LG Display Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^c Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^e Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

flexible; inverted organic solar cell; silver nanowire; transparent conducting electrode

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915781311     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0502-3     Document Type: Article

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