Highly transparent and flexible InTiO/Ag nanowire/InTiO films for flexible organic solar cells

Ki Won Seo; Ju Hyun Lee; Hyo Joong Kim; Han Ki Kim; Seok In Na

doi:10.1063/1.4891194

Highly transparent and flexible InTiO/Ag nanowire/InTiO films for flexible organic solar cells

Ki Won Seo
, Ju Hyun Lee
, Hyo Joong Kim
, Han Ki Kim
, Seok In Na

Kyung Hee University
Jeonbuk National University

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We investigated characteristics of Ti-doped In₂O₃ (TIO)/Ag nanowire (NW)/TIO films as potential transparent and flexible electrodes for flexible organic solar cells. Effective insertion of metallic Ag NW between TIO layers led to improvement of electrical and mechanical properties of sputtered TIO film. At optimized conditions, we achieved a flexible TIO/Ag NW/TIO multilayer with a low sheet resistance of 9.01 Ω/square and a high optical transmittance of 85.14%. In addition, the TIO/Ag NW/TIO multilayer electrode showed small inner and outer bending radius of 5 and 6.5 mm indicating good flexibility. This indicates that hybridization of sputtered TIO films and printed Ag NW network is a promising solution to solve critical problems of high resistance and brittle TIO film and Ag NW network with poor adhesion.

Original language	English
Article number	031911
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	105
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4891194
State	Published - 21 Jul 2014
Externally published	Yes

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