Interfacial Engineering of Ultrathin Metal Film Transparent Electrode for Flexible Organic Photovoltaic Cells

A generally applicable method has been developed for fabricating highly transparent ultrathin Ag films on both glass and plastic substrates using the self‐assembled monolayer modified ZnO/Ag/ZnO tri‐layer structure. The resulting films show remarkably low surface roughness with very high transparenc...

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Published inAdvanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 26; no. 22; pp. 3618 - 3623
Main Authors Zou, Jingyu, Li, Chang-Zhi, Chang, Chih-Yu, Yip, Hin-Lap, Jen, Alex K.-Y.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Blackwell Publishing Ltd 11.06.2014
Subjects
Devices
Electrodes
Glass
interface modification
ITO replacement
Mechanical properties
polymer solar cells
self-assembled monolayer
Silver
Surface resistance
Surface roughness
thin silver electrode
Zinc oxide
polymer solar cells
interface modification
ITO replacement
self-assembled monolayer
thin silver electrode
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Summary:A generally applicable method has been developed for fabricating highly transparent ultrathin Ag films on both glass and plastic substrates using the self‐assembled monolayer modified ZnO/Ag/ZnO tri‐layer structure. The resulting films show remarkably low surface roughness with very high transparency (>80% between 400 and 600 nm) and low surface resistance (8.61 Ω/□). With an inverted architecture, the devices based on the SAM modified tri‐layer UTMF electrode show superior performance and mechanical properties than those using ITO electrode on both glass and plastic substrates.
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ISSN:0935-9648
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DOI:10.1002/adma.201306212