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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 566, Issue -, Pages 375-382Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.01.111
Keywords
Silver nanowire; Graphene oxide; Multilayer structure; Stability; Failure
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- Australian Research Council [FT140100032]
- Australian Research Council [FT140100032] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Silver nanowire (Ag NW)-based flexible and transparent electrodes are a promising candidate for various electronic and optoelectronic applications. However, thermal and electrical instabilities of Ag NW networks during operation and post treatments need to be improved for practical applications. In this work, Ag NW/Graphene Oxide (GO) hybrid films with a multilayer structure were developed, in which transparent GO sheets were inserted between Ag NWs. For the pristine Ag NW networks, contacted NWs exhibited poorer thermal stability than individual NWs as faster Ag diffusion between NWs led to the breakage of the junctions at working temperatures, hence leading to the overall device failure. In contrast, the GO intermediate layers hindered the Ag diffusion between NWs in the Ag NW/Graphene Oxide hybrid films and maintained the junction structure, giving rise to enhanced thermal stability compared to the pristine networks and the GO-covered samples. For electrical tests, unlike the network degradation under annealing treatments, a local deterioration perpendicular to the current flow was directly observed after electrical breakdown, which was attributed to high local temperature under large applied voltage. The electrical failure of the devices was related to the network structure and defects. Furthermore, the pristine devices showed notable variation of failure voltage, which in the hybrid devices is more uniform and improved in general. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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