Benefits, problems, and solutions of silver nanowire transparent conductive electrodes in indium tin oxide (ITO)‐free flexible solar cells

MR Azani, A Hassanpour… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, silver nanowires (AgNWs) are introduced, as the primary material to replace
indium tin oxide for fabricating cost‐effective flexible organic solar cells (FOSCs), because of …

Advances in flexible metallic transparent electrodes

VH Nguyen, DT Papanastasiou, J Resende, L Bardet… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Transparent electrodes (TEs) are pivotal components in many modern devices such as solar
cells, light‐emitting diodes, touch screens, wearable electronic devices, smart windows, and …

Advances in colloidal assembly: the design of structure and hierarchy in two and three dimensions

N Vogel, M Retsch, CA Fustin, A Del Campo… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The colloidal domain is characterized by the dimensions of its constituents in the range from
several nanometers to micrometers. Often, these individual entities are organized in …

Plasmonic nanomeshes: their ambivalent role as transparent electrodes in organic solar cells

C Stelling, CR Singh, M Karg, TAF König… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this contribution, the optical losses and gains attributed to periodic nanohole array
electrodes in polymer solar cells are systematically studied. For this, thin gold nanomeshes …

12.42% Monolithic 25.42 cm2 Flexible Organic Solar Cells Enabled by an Amorphous ITO‐Modified Metal Grid Electrode

Y Han, Z Hu, W Zha, X Chen, L Yin, J Guo… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Printed metal nanogrid electrode exhibits superior characteristics for use in flexible organic
solar cells (OSCs). However, the high surface roughness and inhomogeneity between grid …

Visibly transparent heaters

R Gupta, KDM Rao, S Kiruthika… - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Heater plates or sheets that are visibly transparent have many interesting applications in
optoelectronic devices such as displays, as well as in defrosting, defogging, gas sensing …

The importance of entanglements in optimizing the mechanical and electrical performance of all-polymer solar cells

N Balar, JJ Rech, R Henry, L Ye, H Ade… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Organic solar cells that have all-polymer active layers may have several advantages
compared with polymer–small molecule systems including improved mechanical and …

Introduction of a novel figure of merit for the assessment of transparent conductive electrodes in photovoltaics: Exact and approximate form

A Anand, MM Islam, R Meitzner… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) are key components of photovoltaic devices.
Being transparent, they allow light to enter the device, and being conductive, they allow the …

Physics of transparent conductors

J Gao, K Kempa, M Giersig, EM Akinoglu… - Advances in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Transparent conductors (TCs) are materials, which are characterized by high transmission of
light and simultaneously very high electrical DC conductivity. These materials play a crucial …

Fabrication of silver mesh/grid and its applications in electronics

H Zhou, Y Song - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
With the development of flexible electronics, researchers have endeavored to improve the
characteristics of the commonly used indium tin oxide such as brittleness, poor mechanical …