title: Transferable self-welding silver nanowire network as high performance transparent flexible electrode.
abstract: High performance transparent electrodes (TEs) with figures-of-merit as high as 471 were assembled using ultralong silver nanowires (Ag NWs). A room-temperature plasma was employed to enhance the conductivity of the Ag NW TEs by simultaneously removing the insulating PVP layer coating on the NWs and welding the junctions tightly. Furthermore, we developed a general way to fabricate TEs regardless of substrate limitations by transferring the as-fabricated Ag NW network onto various substrates directly, and the transmittance can remain as high as 91% with a sheet resistivity of 13 Ω/sq. The highly robust and stable flexible TEs will have broad applications in flexible optoelectronic and electronic devices.
authors.affiliation: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Siwei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Zhiyong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou