Highly transparent and conductive embedded silver nanowire electrode for use in flexible solar cells
Lukas Kinner a, Neha Bansal a, Martin Bauch a, Felix Hermerschmidt b, Emil List-Kratochvil b, Theodoros Dimopoulos a
a AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Center for Energy, Photovoltaic Systems, Gieffinggasse 4, 1210 Wien
b Institut für Physik, Institut für Chemie & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität, Brook-Taylor-Straße, 6, Berlin, Germany
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV18)
Benidorm, Spain, 2018 May 28th - 31st
Organizers: Emilio Palomares and Rene Janssen
Oral, Lukas Kinner, presentation 122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2018.122
Publication date: 21st February 2018

We report on room temperature, solution-processed transparent Ag nanowire (AgNW) electrodes with enhanced conductivity, transparency, as well as chemical and mechanical stability. AgNW films were made with fast, large area, ultrasonic spray-coating technology. Different dilution ratios of nanowires/solvent and deposition parameters (such as flow-rate and scan-rate) where tested for optimizing the sheet resistance and optical transmittance. In a fast and low temperature post-deposition plasma-process, the AgNW films where cured to reduce the nanowire contact resistance, which greatly influences the film conductivity. The process proved to be suitable for both glass and PET substrates. Nanowire films achieved comparable sheet resistance and transparency as the ITO reference electrode (>80% transparency with ~10 Ω/square.). To lower the roughness and increase the stability, AgNW films were embedded in a UV-curable polymer and then transferred onto the target substrate. The process was optimized for embedding AgNW films on glass and PET.  Improvement of the chemical stability of the embedded AgNW films was observed in first tests with methylammonium lead iodide chloride (CH3NH3PbI3-xClx) perovskite inks. In non-embedded AgNW films, despite overcoating with PEDOT:PSS degradation was observed. By embedding the AgNW films, the degradation was hampered.

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