Atmospheric-Pressure Processed Silver Nanowire (Ag-NW)/ZnO Composite Transparent Conducting Contacts

John D. Perkins; Shruti Aggarwal; Maikel F.A.M. Van Hest; David S. Ginley

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355919

Atmospheric-Pressure Processed Silver Nanowire (Ag-NW)/ZnO Composite Transparent Conducting Contacts

John D. Perkins, Shruti Aggarwal, Maikel F.A.M. Van Hest, David S. Ginley

Materials, Chemical, and Computational Science

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Abstract

Composite transparent contacts (TCs) based on metal nanowires and metal oxide matrix materials hold great promise for high performance transparent contacts for photovoltaics and opto-electronic technologies with the potential of all-atmospheric pressure processing. The metal nanowire mesh can provide both electrical conductivity and mechanical robustness against bending while the matrix material can both control the electrical interface and protect the metal nanowires. Here, we demonstrate all atmospheric pressure processed Ag-NW/ZnO composite TCs that are 90% transparent in the visible with sheet resistance Rs ≈ 10 Ohms/sq. In addition, the composite TCs have higher infrared transmission than conventional TCO films with the same sheet resistance.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355919 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355919
State	Published - 14 Dec 2015
Event	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015 - New Orleans, United States Duration: 14 Jun 2015 → 19 Jun 2015

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Conference	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	14/06/15 → 19/06/15

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atmospheric-pressure-processing
composite
nanowire
TCO
transparent conductor

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