High performance flexible metal oxide/silver nanowire based transparent conductive films by a scalable lamination-assisted solution method

Flexible MoO/silver nanowire (AgNW)/MoO/TiO/Epoxy electrodes with comparable performance to ITO were fabricated by a scalable solution-processed method with lamination assistance for transparent and conductive applications. Silver nanoparticle-based electrodes were also prepared for comparison. Using a simple spin-coating and lamination-assisted planarization method, a full solution-based approach allows preparation of AgNW-based composite electrodes at temperatures as low as 140 °C. The resulting flexible AgNW-based electrodes exhibit higher transmittance of 82% at 550 nm and lower sheet resistance about 12–15 Ω sq, in comparison with the values of 68% and 22–25 Ω sq separately for AgNP based electrodes. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Atomic force microscopy (AFM) reveals that the multi-stacked metal-oxide layers embedded with the AgNWs possess lower surface roughness