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Fine printing method of silver nanowire electrodes with alignment and accumulation.
Takemoto, Ashuya; Araki, Teppei; Noda, Yuki; Uemura, Takafumi; Yoshimoto, Shusuke; Abbel, Robert; Rentrop, Corne; van den Brand, Jeroen; Sekitani, Tsuyoshi.
Afiliação
  • Takemoto A; The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Ibaraki, 567-0047, Japan. Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, 565-0871, Japan. Advanced Photonics and Biosensing Open Innovation Laboratory, AIST-Osaka University, Suita, 565-0871, Japan.
Nanotechnology ; 30(37): 37LT03, 2019 Sep 13.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31212258
ABSTRACT
One-dimensional metal nanowires offer great potential in printing transparent electrodes for next-generation optoelectronic devices such as flexible displays and flexible solar cells. Printing fine patterns of metal nanowires with widths <100 µm is critical for their practical use in the devices. However, the fine printing of metal nanowires onto polymer substrates remains a major challenge owing to their unintended alignment. This paper reports on a fine-printing method for transparent silver nanowires (AgNWs) electrodes miniaturized to a width of 50 µm on ultrathin (1 µm) polymer substrate, giving a high yield of >90%. In this method, the AgNW dispersion, which is swept by a glass rod, is spontaneously deposited to the hydrophilic areas patterned on a hydrophobic-coated substrate. The alignment and accumulation of AgNWs at the pattern periphery are enhanced by employing a high sweeping rate of >3.2 mm s-1, improving electrical conductivity and pattern definition. The more aligned and more accumulated AgNWs lower the sheet resistance by a factor of up to 6.8. In addition, a high pattern accuracy ≤ 3.6 µm, which is the deviation from the pattern designs, is achieved. Quantitative analyses are implemented on the nanowire alignment to understand the nanowire geometry. This fine-printing method of the AgNW electrodes will provide great opportunities for realizing flexible and high-performance optoelectronic devices.

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article