A tough and high-performance transparent electrode from a scalable and transfer-free method
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Tianda He1, Aozhen Xie, Darrell H Reneker
1Department of Polymer Science, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron , 170 University Circle, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909, United States.
Abstract:
Conductive metal films are patterned into transparent metal nanowire networks by using electrospun fibers as a mask. Both the transmittance and sheet resistance (6 Ω/□ at 83% transmittance and 24 Ω/□ at 92% transmittance) of the metal nanowire-based electrode out-perform commercial indium doped tin oxide (ITO) electrodes. The metal nanowire-based transparent electrodes were fabricated on both rigid glass and flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. In addition to state of art performance, the transparent electrodes also exhibit outstanding toughness. They can withstand repeated scotch tape peeling and various bending tests. The method for making the metal nanowire is scalable, and a touch screen on flexible substrate is demonstrated.

