Highly flexible, hybrid-structured indium tin oxides for transparent electrodes on polymer substrates

Ross E. Triambulo; Jung Hoon Kim; Min Young Na; Hye Jung Chang; Jin Woo Park

doi:10.1063/1.4812187

Highly flexible, hybrid-structured indium tin oxides for transparent electrodes on polymer substrates

Ross E. Triambulo, Jung Hoon Kim, Min Young Na, Hye Jung Chang, Jin Woo Park

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We developed highly flexible, hybrid-structured crystalline indium tin oxide (ITO) for use as transparent electrodes on polymer substrates by embedding Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) into the substrate. The hybrid ITO consists of domains in one orientation grown on the AgNPs and a matrix of the other orientation. The domains are stronger than the matrix and function as barriers to crack propagation. As a result, both the critical bending radius (r_c) (under which the resistivity change (Δρ) is less than a given value) and the change in Δρ with decreasing r significantly decreased in the hybrid ITO compared with homogenous ITO.

Original language	English
Article number	241913
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	102
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4812187
Publication status	Published - 2013 Jun 17

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This research was supported by a grant from the Fundamental R&D Program for Technology of World Premier Materials (WPM) funded by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea, and Seoul RNBD Program (JP110041) of the Seoul Development Institute, Republic of Korea. We are grateful to the ANP Corporation for providing the Ag nanoparticles used in this work.

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