Silver Nanowire Composite Transparent Electrode Based Flexible Polymer Solar Cells

doi:10.11944/j.issn.1000-0518.2018.01.170025

Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry ›› 2018, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (1): 109-115.DOI: 10.11944/j.issn.1000-0518.2018.01.170025

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Silver Nanowire Composite Transparent Electrode Based Flexible Polymer Solar Cells

Xiaoqin ZHANG^a^b,Jiang WU^a,Jiantai WANG^a^b,Chi YAN^a^b,Yingying FU^a,Zhiyuan XIE^a^*()

^aState Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry,Changchun Institute ofApplied Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130022,China
^bUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100039,China

Received:2017-01-23 Accepted:2017-04-06 Published:2018-01-03 Online:2018-01-03
Contact: Zhiyuan XIE
Supported by:
Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2014CB643504), the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51325303, No.21334006), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB12030200)

Abstract

Abstract:

A high performance flexible polymer solar cells(PSCs) are obtained by using a flexible, transparent composite electrode based on silver nanowire(AgNW) with doctor blading method. The AgNW-based flexible composite film(APA) consisting of AgNWs, polyvinyl butyral(PVB) and Al-doped ZnO(AZO) nanoparticles was readily prepared by multi-layer doctor blading on the poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET) substrate at moderate temperature. The transparent APA composite film prepared on the PET substrate exhibits superior opto-electrical properties with a high transmittance of 90.90% at 550 nm and a low sheet resistance of 13.01 Ω/sq. The flexible PSCs employing the transparent APA/PET substrate obtain power convention efficiency(PCE) of 5.47%. Moreover, the PCE falls only 14% after bending for 1000 cycles with a bending radius of 5 mm.

Key words: silver nanowires, composite electrode, flexible, polymer solar cells

Xiaoqin ZHANG, Jiang WU, Jiantai WANG, Chi YAN, Yingying FU, Zhiyuan XIE. Silver Nanowire Composite Transparent Electrode Based Flexible Polymer Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry, 2018, 35(1): 109-115.

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