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Smooth Nanowire/Polymer Composite Transparent
Electrodes
Whitney Gaynor, George F. Burkhard, Michael D. McGehee, and Peter Peumans*
Transparent electrodes are critical components of thin-film
optoelectronic devices such as displays and thin-film solar cells.
Most high-performance transparent conducting films in use
today are composed of sputtered metal oxides.[1,2] These films
can have sheet resistances under 20 Ω ⵧ−1 with 90% transmission when deposited at a high temperature onto glass and
resistances increasing to 40–200 Ω ⵧ−1 with the same transmission when deposited at lower temperatures onto plastic substrates.[2,3] Recent research has focused on replacing conductive
metal oxides with alternative materials that can be deposited
from solution and can reproduce the performance of metal
oxides on glass on various substrates, including plastics. In
addition, metal oxides are brittle,[4,5] and thus alternative transparent conductor technologies are also focusing on flexibility
and robustness to enable lightweight, flexible solar cells and
other thin film devices.
Strategies for non-vacuum deposition of transparent electrodes make use of materials other than metal oxides[6]
including carbon nanotubes,[7–12] reduced graphene oxide,[13–16]
films using both carbon components,[17] highly conductive poly(4,3-ethylene dioxythiophene):poly(styrene-sulfonate) (PEDOT:
PSS),[18–23] electrospun copper networks,[24] printed metal
grids,[25–27] and Ag nanowire films.[28–32] Most of these alternatives do not currently match the performance of conductive
oxides. In particular, the solution-processed carbon-based materials listed above have sheet resistances much higher than those
of metal oxides at comparable optical transmission, from 100 to
5000 Ω ⵧ−1.[6–23] This corresponds to figures of merit, defined
by the ratio of the DC conductivity to the absorption coefficient,
σ/α,[33] of 0.07 Ω−1 to 1.3 × 10−3 Ω−1. To avoid significant losses
in solar cell efficiency brought about by the transparent electrode, the values for these figures of merit should be as high as
possible, ideally above 1 Ω−1.[33] At this point in development,
Ag nanowire films already demonstrate sheet resistances and
transparencies comparable to metal oxides. However, they have
Dr. W. Gaynor, Prof. M. D. McGehee
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Prof. P. Peumans
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
E-mail: ppeumans@stanford.edu
G. F. Burkhard
Department of Applied Physics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201100566
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been found to be unsuitable for many device applications due to
their inherent roughness. For example, high-efficiency thin-film
bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells have never
been reported using Ag nanowire electrodes,[28,29,32] and bilayer
evaporated devices show performance below the efficiencies
for these devices fabricated on indium tin oxide (ITO).[28,32,34]
In every case, low shunt resistances were observed, which corresponded to low fill factors and low efficiencies. In each case,
spin-cast layers of conductive polymer coating these wires was
not enough to overcome the large peaks and valleys created
by the wire–wire junctions. Thus, surface roughness is clearly
another factor, in addition to transparency and conductivity,
that affects the device compatibility of transparent electrodes.
As in some other publications, we use OPV cells to evaluate
the performance of the transparent electrodes. In recent years,
the efficiency of OPV has increased dramatically. The widely
studied regioregular poly-(3-hexylthiophene) and C61 butyric
acid methyl ester (P3HT:PCBM) bulk heterojunction has produced solar cell efficiencies over 4%.[35–37] Newer polymers with
broader absorption have produced cells with efficiencies over
6%.[38,39]
In this work, we prove that the Ag nanowire mesh roughness is the reason these films are incompatible with efficient
devices, and we solve this significant morphology issue, transforming the promise of Ag nanowire films into truly effective transparent electrodes. We achieve this by creating an
organic–inorganic composite, embedding Ag nanowires into
the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS. By varying the polymer
thickness, we are able to gain precise control of the nanoscale
morphology of the composites via lamination. The aim was to
embed the thick junctions between wires away from the top
surface of the electrode such that the active layers in any device
fabricated on top would not undergo local thinning, which
would lead to shunting or shorting, while keeping the conductive mesh on the composite surface. This not only fills the gaps
between the nanowires, but also creates a uniform surface profile in which the nanowires only ever rise above the polymer by
one-fourth of their diameter. The technique results in smooth,
solution-processed transparent conducting films that have sheet
resistances and transmissivities comparable to ITO on glass and
better than ITO on plastic. However, the most important feature of these electrodes is the low roughness that leads to thinfilm device compatibility. We are able to produce high-efficiency
P3HT:PCBM solar cells with PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire anodes
that have the same performance metrics as those fabricated on
ITO on glass. By fabricating the composites and devices on flexible substrates, we also show that PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire
films have superior mechanical and electrical properties to ITO
on plastic, and we are able to demonstrate an increase in flexible OPV cell efficiency using these composites.
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200 nm
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Figure 2. SEM images of composite electrodes using 125 nm of
PEDOT:PSS. a) Top view. b) Cross-section. c) Angled cross-section.
d) Close-up angled surface showing junctions of nanowires embedded
into the polymer (indicated by arrow).
pressure
applied
PEDOT:PSS
glass or PET
nanowires transferred
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Figure 1. a) Transparent electrode fabrication procedure. b–e) Crosssection SEM images of silver nanowires laminated under the same conditions onto varying thicknesses of PEDOT:PSS: b) 25 nm, c) 50 nm,
d) 75 nm, and e) 100 nm.
Films of 50- to 100-nm-diameter Ag nanowires were dropcast from suspension onto glass.[28,30] The nanowires were then
laminated onto spin-cast PEDOT:PSS films of varying thickness
in order to investigate the morphology of the composites. The
fabrication process is illustrated in Figure 1a. In all cases the
same pressure was used and the wires transferred completely
to the polymer. Figure 1b–e show cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of nanowires embedded into
four different thicknesses of PEDOT:PSS: 25 nm (b), 50 nm
(c), 75 nm (d), and 100 nm (e). There are no observable differences in the resulting films to the eye, nor are there apparent
differences in top view SEM images. However, cross-sectional
SEM images reveal that as the PEDOT:PSS thickness increases,
the composite morphology changes dramatically. On 25 nm of
PEDOT:PSS, the nanowires transfer to the PEDOT:PSS but do
not sink into the polymer along their lengths, resulting in a
forest-like structure. As the PEDOT:PSS layer increases to 50,
75, and 100 nm, the wires sink into the PEDOT:PSS and the
meshes become flatter, with the polymer filling the deep spaces
between the wires. In order to create completely flat films for
use as electrodes, the PEDOT:PSS needs to be thick enough to
embed both single wires and the wire–wire junctions that are
essential to conductivity.
Figure 2 shows SEM images of Ag nanowires laminated
into 125 nm of PEDOT:PSS, which results in a transparent,
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as an electrode. A top view SEM image is shown (Figure 2a).
Using image-processing software, we determined that the Ag
nanowires cover 29% of the film. Cross-sectional SEM images
(Figure 2b, colorized for clarity) show that the nanowires are
nearly completely embedded into the PEDOT:PSS. An off-angle
cross-section (Figure 2c) shows that all wires are in the plane of
the substrate and appear fully connected. Figure 2d (colorized
for clarity) confirms that the wire–wire junctions, indicated with
an arrow, are embedded into the PEDOT:PSS layer, allowing the
upper wires to stay flush. This is particularly critical for highefficiency OPV performance, as any conductive nanostructures
protruding toward the bulk heterojunction active layer will
form preferential current pathways through the device, leading
to shunting and a reduced fill factor.[28,30] Thus it is imperative
that the wire–wire junctions, the thickest parts of the nanowire
mesh, are embedded with the roughness protruding away from
the device to prevent this from occurring.
Tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to
further characterize the composite’s surface morphology. The
AFM topographical image of the PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire film
is shown in Figure 3. The root mean square (RMS) roughness
was measured at 11.9 nm, with the nanowires rising between
20 and 30 nm above the PEDOT:PSS surface, as shown in the
line scan in Figure 3. This is in contrast to bare Ag nanowires,
in which top-to-bottom height can be as large as 200–300 nm,
depending on the number of wires stacked in junctions. The
wire used in the line scan is denoted by the dark blue box in
the topographical image. We note that while the maximum and
minimum heights are accurate, the bell-shape of the line scan
does not reflect the actual topography (see Figure 2d), but is
an artifact of the AFM scan. For comparison, the RMS roughness of ITO films was measured at <3 nm, substantially smaller
than the value for these composites. However, as will be shown
using OPV device data, this amount of roughness in the composites does not impair the preparation of high-quality devices.
Sheet resistance and optical transmission measurements
were taken to compare the performance of the composite films
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Figure 3. Tapping mode AFM scan of the PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire surface (top) and AFM height line profile of a nanowire (bottom). The wire
used in the line scan is indicated by the dark blue box in the topographical
image.
to that of ITO. Samples were prepared on glass and on 5-mil
polyethylene terephthalate (PET). On glass, the ITO sheet resistance was 20 Ω ⵧ−1, while the PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire composite from Figure 2 was 12 Ω ⵧ−1. On PET, there was a larger
difference between the films; the ITO sheet resistance was
42 Ω ⵧ−1 whereas the PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire film was only
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17 Ω ⵧ−1. Because no high-temperature processing steps are
required in the composite film fabrication, the sheet resistance
is nearly substrate-independent. Sheet resistance measurements of 125 nm of PEDOT:PSS result in values greater than
10 MΩ ⵧ−1. This means that the PEDOT:PSS is not conducting
over large scales, and the bulk of the composite conductivity
occurs in the nanowires.
Transmission measurements were taken with the light incident through the substrate. An integrating sphere was used to
collect direct and diffuse transmission, as it has been shown that
17–20% of the light transmitted through Ag nanowires is diffuse.[28,30] The transmission values reported here do not include
substrate reflections. The average transmission of ITO on glass
(20 Ω ⵧ−1) over wavelengths 350–800 nm is 90% (Figure 4a).
The PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire composite (12 Ω ⵧ−1) on glass
has an average transmission of 86%. Comparing the two figures
of merit, σ/αGLASS/ITO = 0.50 Ω−1 and σ/αGLASS/PEDOT/NW =
0.60 Ω−1, and thus the composite is the better performing film
overall. On PET, the transmission spectrum of the ITO is very
different, as the ITO transmission varies with thickness and
the manufacturing process. The average transmission of this
ITO on plastic is 91%, although the standard deviation is much
greater than on glass. The PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire film on
plastic shows a lower average transmission at 83%, although it
is important to note that the spectral response of the composites is far more substrate-independent than that of ITO. This
time, comparing the figures of merit, σ/αPET/ITO = 0.26 Ω−1 and
σ/αPET/PEDOT/NW = 0.34 Ω−1, and again the composite performs
better than ITO. The 3% lower transmission for this sample as
compared to the one on glass can be attributed to variations in
the nanowire suspension. The slightly lower transmission in
the PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire composite as compared to ITO
is in large part due to parasitic absorption in the PEDOT:PSS
layer. The transmission spectrum of a 125-nm PEDOT:PSS layer
alone has an average value of 95.5% over the spectral range.
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PEDOT (125 nm)
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ITO on PET
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Transmission/%
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Figure 4. a) Transmission over the wavelengths 350–800 nm for ITO on glass (light blue solid) and on plastic (light blue dashed), 125-nm PEDOT:PSS
on glass (dark blue), and 125-nm PEDOT:PSS with nanowires on glass (green solid) and on plastic (green dashed). ITO and PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowires
sheet resistances on glass are noted. Inset of (a) shows the PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire film (inner square) on plastic in front of the Stanford University
seal. b) Sheet resistance vs radius of curvature for ITO (blue) and PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowires (green) on PET. Sheet resistance values for flat films are
noted.
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This accounts for the lower transmissivity obtained here compared to previous studies of Ag nanowires.[28–30] The photograph
in Figure 4a demonstrates the transmission of PEDOT:PSS/Ag
nanowires on plastic with the Stanford University seal visible
behind the inner square where the film is located.
The composites are also far more resilient to mechanical
stress than ITO. To demonstrate this, films fabricated on flexible substrates were bent while the sheet resistance was measured. In Figure 4b, the sheet resistance of an ITO film on 5-mil
PET (Sigma-Aldrich) is compared to that of a PEDOT:PSS/Ag
nanowire composite prepared on 5-mil PET (Southwall Technologies) as a function of the substrate bending radius. The
ITO sheet resistance increases significantly and irreversibly
when a bending radius of 8.5 mm is reached. At an 8.5 mm
bending radius and 0.75% strain, the sheet resistance increased
to over 100 Ω ⵧ−1 and then to over 500 Ω ⵧ−1, before the film
was re-flattened and the resistance dropped to its final value
of 113 Ω ⵧ−1. This hysteretic behavior is consistent with ITO
cracking under tension that has been previously observed.[4,5]
In contrast, the same experiment does not significantly alter the
sheet resistance of the composite electrodes, even at a bending
radius of 1.2 mm. At a 1.2 mm bending radius and 3.5% strain,
the sheet resistance of the composite went from 17 Ω ⵧ−1 to
18 Ω ⵧ−1, and the slight change can be attributed to scratches
in the film induced by the measurement setup.
Bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells using P3HT:PCBM
were fabricated on ITO and on PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire
films on both glass and plastic substrates. For comparison,
the same devices were also built on bare Ag nanowire films
on glass. All transparent conductors served as device anodes.
Current density vs voltage for devices on glass/ITO, on glass/
bare Ag nanowires, and on glass/PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowires in
the dark and under 100 mW cm−2 AM 1.5G illumination are
shown in Figure 5a. On glass/ITO, the open circuit voltage was
0.625 V, the short circuit current density was 10.4 mA cm−2, the
fill factor was 0.65, and the power conversion efficiency was
4.2%. On glass/Ag nanowires, the cell performance decreased
substantially. The open circuit voltage was 0.415 V, the short
circuit current density was 2.8 mA cm−2, and the fill factor
was 0.25, resulting in a 0.3% power conversion efficiency. This
curve is representative of the performance of all P3HT:PCBM
devices made on bare nanowires in this study, with significant
shunting and a poor fill factor. The optimal active layer morphology and phase separation in bulk heterojunction OPV is
critical to all points of operation.[36,40,41] The cell performance
and controlled fabrication indicate that the morphology required
for high efficiency cannot be achieved on rough Ag nanowires.
This clearly demonstrates why bare Ag nanowire films are not
a suitable ITO replacement despite having low sheet resistance
and high optical transmission. This is not the case for the composite films. On glass/PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowires, the open circuit voltage was 0.615 V, the short circuit current density was
10.4 mA cm−2, and the fill factor was 0.65, yielding the same
power conversion efficiency, 4.2%, as the device on ITO. There
is no significant difference in device performance in any metric
from the ITO device and these efficiencies, at above 4%, are on
par with the best cells reported using these materials.[35–37] The
high fill factor is particularly noteworthy for the devices fabricated on the composites. As is evident from the current density
ITO dark
ITO light
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NW light
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PEDOT/NW light
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Figure 5. Current density vs voltage for P3HT:PCBM solar cells on
ITO (light blue), on Ag nanowires (dark blue), and on PEDOT:PSS/Ag
nanowires (green) in the dark (dashed) and under 100 mW cm−2 of
AM 1.5G illumination (solid) on glass (a) and on plastic (b). Inset of
(b) shows the P3HT:PCBM solar cell fabricated on plastic/PEDOT:PSS/
Ag nanowires viewed through the substrate.
vs voltage characteristics in Figure 5a, no shunting is present.
This is a direct result of the reduced roughness brought about
by embedding the wire–wire junctions away from the active
layer via lamination. These devices are the highest-efficiency
ITO-free OPV cells yet reported.
Figure 5b shows current density vs voltage for devices on
plastic substrates on ITO and PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowires in the
dark and under 100 mW cm−2 AM 1.5G illumination. The inset
shows flexible devices on PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowires viewed
through the substrate. In this case, the open circuit voltage for
both devices is 0.605 V. Due to greater ITO transparency, that
device has a higher short circuit current density, 10.8 mA cm−2,
compared to 9.74 mA cm−2 for the PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowire
device. However, because the composite sheet resistance is
lower, the fill factor is raised from 0.52 on ITO to 0.64. This
increases the efficiency from 3.4% on ITO on plastic to 3.8% on
PEDOT:PSS/Ag nanowires on plastic. This is an advance toward
the promise of high-efficiency flexible roll-to-roll fabricated OPV
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Electrode Fabrication: All glass (VWR) and plastic (Southwall
Technologies) substrates were cleaned using detergent, deionized
water, acetone, and boiling isopropyl alcohol, then treated with
UV-ozone for 25 min. Clevios AI 4083 (H. C. Starck) in aqueous
suspension was used in all electrodes fabricated in this work. It was
spun onto substrates in air at 5000, 3000, 1500, 1000, and 700 rpm
to produce PEDOT:PSS films of varying thickness. These films were
then annealed at 150 °C for 20 min to evaporate any remaining water.
Ag nanowire films were drop-cast from suspension in methanol onto
clean glass treated with poly-L-lysine (Ted Pella). These films were
allowed to slowly dry on a shaking plate to prevent wire aggregation
and then annealed at 180 °C for 1 h to reduce sheet resistance. All
lamination was carried out in air at room temperature using a shop
press (Torin) at 2.4 × 104 psi.
Electrode Characterization: Sheet resistance measurements were taken
by evaporating silver pads onto the electrode surface to define a patterned
square area, over which the resistance was measured using a multimeter.
Transmission was measured using a monochromator, integrating sphere,
and silicon photodiode (Newport). A Sirion SEM was used for imaging
and Adobe Photoshop was used for the coloring of Figure 2. A Park XE-70
AFM was used in tapping mode for topography characterization.
Device Fabrication: Pre-patterned ITO substrates were used, while
composite electrodes were patterned using acetone prior to device
deposition. ITO was cleaned using the method described above,
including UV-ozone treatment. In all cases, a 50-nm-thick PEDOT:PSS
film (Clevios AI 4083, H. C. Starck) was deposited by spin-coating
at 2000 rpm, followed by a 200-nm-thick photoactive layer cast from
2.5 wt% P3HT:PCBM (Rieke Metals, Nano-C) in a 1:1 ratio in orthodichlorobenzene, spun at 800 rpm under nitrogen. This layer was allowed
to dry overnight in a covered Petri dish and was then annealed at 110 °C
for 10 min to evaporate any remaining solvent. The vacuum-deposited
cathode consisted of 7 nm of Ca followed by 200 nm of Al evaporated at
10−6 Torr. All device areas were 7 mm2.
Device Characterization: All photovoltaic devices were measured in the
dark and under 100 mW cm−2 of AM 1.5G illumination, calibrated using
a silicon photodiode (Newport) and corrected for the spectral mismatch
of the P3HT:PCBM materials system.
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge H. S. Kim and Y. Cui for providing silver
nanowires and Southwall Technologies for providing plastic substrates.
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cells. Based on these results, we anticipate the use of these composites in other types of rigid and flexible organic solar cells.
In conclusion, we have produced and characterized a truly
effective ITO replacement for OPV cells by embedding Ag
nanowires into conducting polymer. This raises the OPV performance with respect to rough Ag nanowire electrodes to
produce high-quality devices on par with or better than those
fabricated using ITO. The composites have nearly substrateindependent properties and they require no vacuum or hightemperature processing, while being able to tolerate >5 times
larger mechanical strain than ITO due to substrate bending.
In addition, the concept and technique presented here could
be used with other nanoscale materials and polymers to create
a new class of embedded nanostructure/polymer hybrid
materials with novel properties. This technology, combined
with the recent advances in solar cell efficiency,[38,39] could
help flexible OPVs to become commercially competitive.
Thanks to M. Rowell and B. Hardin for helpful discussions. This work
was supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics
(Award No KUS-C1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science
and Technology (KAUST).
Received: February 11, 2011
Published online: April 29, 2011
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