Low-temperature nanowelding silver nanowire hybrid flexible transparent conductive film for green light OLED devices

Abstract

Flexible organic light emitting diodes (OLED) have attracted great attention in many applications. MXene based flexible transparent conductive films (TCFs) are the most promising next-generation electrodes for flexible electronics. Herein, the sandwich conductive structure of silver nanowires (AgNWs) network, new 2D nanosheets with excellent conductivity, hydrophilicity and mechanical flexibility and PEDOT: PSS contributes to a highly transparent and conductive hybrid electrode through a simple, scalable, low-cost spray method. The Ti3C2Tx/AgNWs/PEDOT-PET film shows a low sheet resistance (< 30 Ω/sq) and high transmittance ＞ 80% at 550 nm). Flexible OLED with such hybrid anode has the maximum brightness, current efficiency and current density, as high as 10040 cd/m2, 3.7 cd/A and 535.5 mA/cm2, respectively. These results indicate that the novel Ti3C2Tx/AgNWs/PEDOT-PET TCFs have a great potential for high-performance flexible optoelectronic devices.

One-step fabrication of highly stable, durable, adhesion enhanced, flexible, transparent conducting films based on silver nanowires and neutralized PEDOT:PSS

“…Flexible transparent electrode materials are specifically favourable for next-generation electronic applications as thin, lightweight, foldable, and bendable [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. In the recent past, flexible, and foldable TCEs have fascinated much rigorous considerations due to the increasing demand of the flexible and wearable electronics.…”

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Flexible transparent electrode materials are specifically favourable for next-generation electronic applications due to being thin, lightweight, foldable, and bendable. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] In the recent past, flexible and foldable TCEs have fascinated much attention due to the increasing demand for flexible and wearable electronics. Flexible TCEs have been extensively explored in various fields including energy storage, display and lighting, wearable electronics, and medical equipment, which have a large impact on human living and, at large, society.…”

“…Flexible electronics have been widely explored based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs), [28][29][30][31][32][33][34] graphene, [34][35][36][37][38][39] conducting polymers (PEDOT:PSS), [40][41][42][43] metal meshes and metal grids, [44][45][46][47][48][49] and silver nanowires (AgNWs). [2][3][4][5][6][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] Conducting polymers and carbonbased nanomaterials are extremely flexible and allow lowtemperature solution processing for the fabrication of electrodes. However, the sheet resistances of conducting polymer and carbon material transparent electrodes are higher in the range between 100 and 500 O sq À1 (transparency, 80-95%) when compared with ITO (10-50 O sq À1 ).…”

Enhanced Performance of Flexible Organic Photovoltaics Based on MoS2 Micro-Nano Array

“…Neither the traditional silicon solar cells nor the emerging perovskite solar cells can be comparable with FOPV in applications requiring flexible properties. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which has the characteristics of light weight and bending resistance, is a widely used ideal flexible substrate in organic electronic devices, including organic field-effect transistors [ 3 , 4 , 5 ], organic light emitting diodes [ 6 , 7 ], and FOPVs [ 8 , 9 ]. The research on FOPV primarily focuses on developing new polymeric functional materials [ 10 , 11 ], electrodes [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ], and substrates [ 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ].…”

Multifunctional Polyimides for Resistive Switching Memory Devices Based on Flexible Transparent Polyimide--AgNWs Hybrid Electrodes

“…[14][15][16] Polymer memory materials can store data through the conversion between the low and high current states between two electrodes by the applied voltage, which can be assigned as "0" and "1" or "OFF" state and "ON" state. [17][18][19][20][21] In recent years, functional polyimides (PIs) are regarded as the most promising polymeric memory materials due to their excellent thermal resistance [22] , chemical stability [23] , mechanical durability [24] and flexibility [25] . More importantly, PIs with the special donor-acceptor (D-A) type molecular structures exhibiting stronger intramolecular and intermolecular charge transfer (CT) effects are more promising for the flexible memory devices.…”