A Facile Solution-Phase Approach to Transparent and Conducting ITO Nanocrystal Assemblies

作者：Lee Jonghun; Lee Sunghwan; Li Guanglai; Petruska Melissa A; Paine David C; Sun Shouheng^*

来源：Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134(32): 13410-13414.

DOI：10.1021/ja3044807

Monodisperse 11 nm indium tin oxide (ITO) nanocrystals (NCs) were synthesized by thermal decomposition of indium acetylacetonate, In(acac)(3), and tin bis(acetylacetonate)dichloride, Sn-(acac)(2)Cl-2, at 270 degrees C in 1-octadecene with oleylamine and oleic acid as surfactants. Dispersed in hexane, these ITO NCs were spin-cast on centimeter-wide glass substrates, forming uniform ITO NC assemblies with root-mean-square roughness of 2.9 nm. The assembly thickness was controlled by ITO NC concentrations in hexane and rotation speeds of the spin coater. Via controlled thermal annealing at 300 degrees C for 6 h under Ar and 5% H-2, the ITO NC assemblies became conductive and transparent with the 146 nm-thick assembly showing 5.2 X 10(-3) Omega.cm (R-s = 356 Omega/sq) resistivity and 93% transparency in the visible spectral range-the best values ever reported for ITO NC assemblies prepared from solution phase processes. The stable hexane dispersion of ITO NCs was also readily spin-cast on polyimide (T-g similar to 360 degrees C), and the resultant ITO assembly exhibited a comparable conductivity and transparency to the assembly on a glass substrate. The reported synthesis and assembly provide a promising solution to the fabrication of transparent and conducting ITO NCs on flexible substrates for optoelectronic applications.

• 出版日期2012-8-15