Synthesis of colloidal silver nanoparticles for printed electronics

Colloidal silver particles were successfully prepared by wet chemical synthesis. The pure single phase of silver was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. Transmission electron microscope categorized that the diameters of particles were 100 and 20 nm, depending on the molecular weight of the PVP stabilizer. A schematic drawing model was used to predict the packing efficiency of 1:1 wt% of two mixtures. The mixture of silver solution was deposited as a thin solid film by a desktop inkjet printer. Scanning electron microscope showed that two different sizes of silver particles give higher densely packed structure than the film of single particle size. When a 0-20 V voltage was applied, the current density reached was 0.10 J/cm(2), suggesting that the silver film has potential to be applied as a cathode layer in organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices. (C) 2012 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.