TY - GEN
T1 - Highly transparent low sheet resistance electrodes for solar cell applications
AU - Shikoh, Ali
AU - Popelka, Anton
AU - Touati, Farid
AU - Benammar, Mohieddine
AU - Zhu, Zhaozhao
AU - Mankowski, Trent
AU - Balakrishnan, Kaushik
AU - Mansuripur, Masud
AU - Falco, Charles
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - High aspect ratio copper nanowires were synthesized, using a solution-based approach. The nanowires along with reduced graphene oxide thin films were sprayed onto glass and flexible substrates and later annealed in order to produce transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs). These electrodes exhibited 91.5% optical transmissivity and around 9- Ω/sq sheet resistance, which are comparable to Indium Tin Oxide (ITO). In addition, the hybrid TCEs, when exposed to ambient temperature showed slowed sheet resistance degradation. The electrodes deposited on a flexible substrate, showed immunity against any notable changes in the sheet resistance, when gone through numerous bending cycles. Adaption of such nanomaterials in conducting films could lead to the potential alternatives for the conventional ITO, with applications in numerous industries, including solar cells manufacturing.
AB - High aspect ratio copper nanowires were synthesized, using a solution-based approach. The nanowires along with reduced graphene oxide thin films were sprayed onto glass and flexible substrates and later annealed in order to produce transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs). These electrodes exhibited 91.5% optical transmissivity and around 9- Ω/sq sheet resistance, which are comparable to Indium Tin Oxide (ITO). In addition, the hybrid TCEs, when exposed to ambient temperature showed slowed sheet resistance degradation. The electrodes deposited on a flexible substrate, showed immunity against any notable changes in the sheet resistance, when gone through numerous bending cycles. Adaption of such nanomaterials in conducting films could lead to the potential alternatives for the conventional ITO, with applications in numerous industries, including solar cells manufacturing.
KW - copper nanowires
KW - graphene
KW - nano-materials
KW - solar energy
KW - transparent conducting electrodes
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U2 - 10.1109/ICM.2014.7071840
DO - 10.1109/ICM.2014.7071840
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84988221508
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM
SP - 196
EP - 199
BT - 2014 26th International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 26th International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM 2014
Y2 - 14 December 2014 through 17 December 2014
ER -