Thermal pressing of a metal-grid transparent electrode into a plastic substrate for flexible electronic devices
- Authors
- Lee, Youngwoo; Jin, Won-Yong; Cho, Kuk Young; Kang, Jae-Wook; Kim, Jihoon
- Issue Date
- Jul-2016
- Publisher
- ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
- Keywords
- ORGANIC SOLAR-CELLS; CURRENT COLLECTING GRIDS; NANOTROUGH NETWORKS; HYBRID STRUCTURES; HIGH-PERFORMANCE; CONDUCTIVE FILM; INK; JET; TEMPERATURE; EFFICIENT
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C, v.4, no.32, pp.7577 - 7583
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
- Volume
- 4
- Number
- 32
- Start Page
- 7577
- End Page
- 7583
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/16069
- DOI
- 10.1039/c6tc01234e
- ISSN
- 2050-7526
- Abstract
- A flexible transparent electrode (TE) is fabricated by thermal pressing of a metal-grid into a plastic film. The metal-grid is prepared by electrohydrodynamic continuous jet printing, which easily provides a high aspect ratio for the printed lines. Embedding the high-aspect-ratio metal-grid results in a smooth surface morphology that promotes the uniform deposition of functional materials over the metal-grid TE. The thermal-pressed metal-grid TEs show excellent electrical and optical performance: a sheet resistance of 0.5 Omega sq(-1) and an optical transmittance above 80% lead to a figure of merit of 2000. The flexibility of the thermal-pressed metal-grid TE is investigated under both compressive and tensile bending stresses. Invariant electrical performance is observed for a bending radius of up to 3 mm. Less than 30% degradation of the original electrical performance occurs after 1000 compressive-bending cycles with a radius of 10 mm. Organic solar cells fabricated on the thermal-pressed metal-grid TEs demonstrate acceptable device performance equivalent to devices fabricated on commercial indium tin oxide glass. These properties confirm the feasibility of thermal-pressed metal-grid TEs for use in flexible electronics.
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