Solution-Processed Highly Conductive PEDOT:PSS/AgNW/GO Transparent Film for Efficient Organic-Si Hybrid Solar Cells

Xu, Qiaojing; Song, Tao; Cui, Wei; Liu, Yuqiang; Xu, Weidong; Lee, Shuit‐Tong; Sun, Baoquan

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“…A silver grid/PEDOT:PSS hybrid fi lm with high conductivity and excellent stability is successfully fabricated. Although some work has been conducted on fabricating silver-PEDOT:PSS composites to enhance the transparency, conductivity, and stability in air, [32][33][34][35][36] there is a lack of comprehensive research on their electrochemical applications, such as for supercapacitors, electrochromism, electrocatalysis, etc. This hybrid structure presents a large optical modulation of 81.9% at 633 nm, fast switching, and high coloration effi ciency (124.5 cm 2 C −1 ).…”

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Highly Stable Transparent Conductive Silver Grid/PEDOT:PSS Electrodes for Integrated Bifunctional Flexible Electrochromic Supercapacitors

Cai

Darmawan

Cui

et al. 2015

Advanced Energy Materials

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theoretical and practical aspects of supercapacitors in recent years. [4][5][6] Still, supercapacitors with more functionality and novel features are being sought to extend their application range. For example, fl exible, stretchable, and wearable supercapacitors have been developed to meet the requirements of portable and wearable electronics. [7][8][9][10] It would be highly attractive to integrate both an energy-storage and an electrochromism functionality into one device for multiple applications. Such device could be used not only for energy-storage smart windows, which can store energy by charging the window and adjusting the lighting and heating of the building, [ 11,12 ] but also for sensing variations in the level of stored energy and being able to respond to the variations in a noticeable and predictable manner. [13][14][15][16] As a key component of these smart devices, the transparent electrodes used not only need to be highly transparent but also highly conductive to simultaneously meet the needs of charging/discharging under high current density conditions and that of fast coloration switching speeds. However, the most commonly used transparent conducting electrodes are indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass, [ 11,16 ] fl uorine doped tin oxide (FTO)-coated glass, [ 13,15 ] poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), [ 12 ] and carbon nanotubes. [ 14 ] The sheet resistance of these transparent conducting electrodes is in the range of tens to hundreds of Ω per square, which could hinder the device charging/discharging process and may lead to the color changes lagging behind the changes in the stored energy, especially under high current densities. In addition, ITO and FTO as transparent electrodes are unsuitable for fl exible electronics applications because of their brittleness and high cost of the preparation procedure. [17][18][19] Therefore, it is very important to design an electrode with a low electrical resistance and a high optical transmittance for smart energystorage device applications.A variety of fl exible transparent electrodes have been investigated as low-cost ITO substitutes, including conducting polymers, [ 20 ] carbon nanotubes (CNTs), [ 21 ] graphene, [ 22 ] metal nanowires, [ 23,24 ] and metal grids. [25][26][27] Among these fl exible Silver grids are attractive for replacing indium tin oxide as fl exible transparent conductors. This work aims to improve the electrochemical stability of silverbased transparent conductors. A silver grid/PEDOT:PSS hybrid fi lm with high conductivity and excellent stability is successfully fabricated. Its functionality for fl exible electrochromic applications is demonstrated by coating one layer of WO 3 nanoparticles on the silver grid/PEDOT:PSS hybrid fi lm. This hybrid structure presents a large optical modulation of 81.9% at 633 nm, fast switching, and high coloration effi ciency (124.5 cm 2 C −1 ). More importantly, an excellent electrochemical cycling stability (sustaining 79.1% of their initial transmittance modulation a...

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Highly Stable Transparent Conductive Silver Grid/PEDOT:PSS Electrodes for Integrated Bifunctional Flexible Electrochromic Supercapacitors

Cai

Darmawan

Cui

et al. 2015

Advanced Energy Materials

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“…Despite possessing large T , low electrical sheet resistance ( R s ), high chemical and environmental stability, ITO requires high temperature processing, has poor mechanical flexibility and high raw material cost6. Among the material alternatives, Al-doped ZnO (AZO), carbon nanotubes, metal nanowires, ultrathin metals, conducting polymers and, most recently, graphene have been extensively considered7891011121314151617181920. Some of these alternatives can overcome the mechanical fragility, high temperature processing and/or cost of ITO, but still suffer from one or more drawbacks such as poor adhesion, large surface roughness and high optical scattering, and not always achieve a competitive trade-off between T and R s 2122232425.…”

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An antireflection transparent conductor with ultralow optical loss (<2 %) and electrical resistance (<6 Ω sq−1)

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Transparent conductors are essential in many optoelectronic devices, such as displays, smart windows, light-emitting diodes and solar cells. Here we demonstrate a transparent conductor with optical loss of ∼1.6%, that is, even lower than that of single-layer graphene (2.3%), and transmission higher than 98% over the visible wavelength range. This was possible by an optimized antireflection design consisting in applying Al-doped ZnO and TiO2 layers with precise thicknesses to a highly conductive Ag ultrathin film. The proposed multilayer structure also possesses a low electrical resistance (5.75 Ω sq−1), a figure of merit four times larger than that of indium tin oxide, the most widely used transparent conductor today, and, contrary to it, is mechanically flexible and room temperature deposited. To assess the application potentials, transparent shielding of radiofrequency and microwave interference signals with ∼30 dB attenuation up to 18 GHz was achieved.

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“…Graphene is a promising electrode material due to its high theoretical surface area of 2630 m 2 g −1 and a very high intrinsic electrical conductivity in plane as well as high mechanical strength and chemical stability. 123 There have been several reports on the graphene-based electrodes for various applications such as in solar cell, 124 thermoelectric devices, 125 fuel cells, 126 ultraviolet light sensor, 127 ultrathin organic photodetectors, 128 liquid crystal device, 129 and so on. In this section, only a limited number of works involving energy conversion (field effect transistors and field emission displays) and storage devices (supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries) due to graphene becoming more interesting materials to be studied for the rapid growth in commercialization.…”

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Review—Critical Considerations of High Quality Graphene Synthesized by Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition for Electronic and Energy Storage Devices

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Zulkapli

Dorah

et al. 2017

ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol.

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Graphene is a promising electrode material not only due to its intrinsic properties like good electrical conductivity, high mechanical strength and high chemical stability, but also because of its high theoretical surface area of 2630 m 2 g −1 . In this report, the effect of CVD parameters to the growth of high quality graphene on metal substrates by using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) was extensively studied. Interestingly, synthesizing high quality graphene by PECVD technique is not only depending on the CVD parameters, but also depending on the catalysts and its plasma sources. It was found that Ni and Cu are the most favored metal catalysts for PECVD graphene growth. With high solubility of carbon (> 0.1 at. %), Ni effectively promote the growth of multilayer graphene by PECVD. However, large-area synthesis has made relatively inexpensive Cu as one of the most attractive substrates for monolayer graphene growth. Further details on the potential use of different transition metal catalysts in synthesizing graphene and consequently the specific usage of graphene based devices are discussed in this report.

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Solution-Processed Highly Conductive PEDOT:PSS/AgNW/GO Transparent Film for Efficient Organic-Si Hybrid Solar Cells

Cited by 113 publications

References 46 publications

Highly Stable Transparent Conductive Silver Grid/PEDOT:PSS Electrodes for Integrated Bifunctional Flexible Electrochromic Supercapacitors

Highly Stable Transparent Conductive Silver Grid/PEDOT:PSS Electrodes for Integrated Bifunctional Flexible Electrochromic Supercapacitors

An antireflection transparent conductor with ultralow optical loss (<2 %) and electrical resistance (<6 Ω sq−1)

Review—Critical Considerations of High Quality Graphene Synthesized by Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition for Electronic and Energy Storage Devices

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