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Scalable Solution-processed Fabrication Strategy for High-performance, Flexible, Transparent Electrodes with Embedded Metal Mesh
Published on: June 23, 2017
Flexible, transparent contacts for inorganic nanostructures and thin films
Daniel B Turner-Evans1, Hal Emmer, Christopher T Chen
1T. J. Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|June 12, 2013
Abstract:
A transparent, flexible contact is developed using Ni nanoparticles and Ag nanowires and demonstrated on free-standing, polymer embedded, Si microwire solar cells. Contact yields of over 99% and a series resistance of 14 Ω cm² are demonstrated.

