Interfacial engineering of ultrathin metal film transparent electrode for flexible organic photovoltaic cells

Jingyu Zou; Chang Zhi Li; Chih Yu Chang; Hin Lap Yip; Alex K.Y. Jen

doi:10.1002/adma.201306212

Interfacial engineering of ultrathin metal film transparent electrode for flexible organic photovoltaic cells

Jingyu Zou, Chang Zhi Li, Chih Yu Chang, Hin Lap Yip, Alex K.Y. Jen

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3618-3623
Number of pages	6
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	26
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201306212
Publication status	Published - Jun 11 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

interface modification
ITO replacement
polymer solar cells
self-assembled monolayer
thin silver electrode

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General Materials Science
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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