All-Solution-Processed, Scalable, Self-Cracking Ag Network Transparent Conductor

作者：Yang, Chaobin; Merlo, Juan M.; Kong, Jiantao; Xian, Zhike; Han, Bing; Zhou, Guofu; Gao, Jinwei; Burns, Michael J.; Kempa, Krzysztof; Naughton, Michael J.^*

来源：Physica Status Solidi A-Applications and Materials Science, 2018, 215(1): 1700504.

DOI：10.1002/pssa.201700504

• electroplating
• photolithography
• solution process
• transparent conductors

A scalable and a fully solution-based method is developed to produce environmentally stable Ag micro/nanowire networks for transparent conductors. By applying a self-cracking, water-soluble acrylate copolymer film as a photoresist mask, the need for formal photomask fabrication and costly vacuum and lithographic facilities is obviated. Also, an increase in adhesion and a decrease in roughness of the metal networks is demonstrated by depositing metal into the regions created by the glass etch step. As a result, the networks can potentially be inexpensively scaled to large areas, as well as be flexible after removal from the substrate. They also exhibit record values of figures of merit that have been employed in the literature, offering a possibly excellent replacement for ITO.

• 出版日期2018-1