Designing highly conductive and stable silver nanocrystal thin films with tunable work functions through solution-based surface engineering with gold coating process
- Authors
- Seong, Mingi; Lee, Seung-Wook; Joh, Hyungmok; Lee, Woo Seok; Paik, Taejong; Oh, Soong Ju
- Issue Date
- 25-3월-2017
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
- Keywords
- Silver nanocrystal; Flexible electrode; Work function; Solution process; Gold coating; Galvanic exchange
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS, v.698, pp.400 - 409
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
- Volume
- 698
- Start Page
- 400
- End Page
- 409
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/84109
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.12.157
- ISSN
- 0925-8388
- Abstract
- We fabricated highly conductive and stable silver nanocrystal (Ag NC) thin film electrodes with tunable work functions using an all-solution-based method involving sequential ligand exchange and gold (Au) coating processes. We studied the effect of the Au coating process on the ligand-exchanged Ag NC thin films and successfully demonstrated the formation of a thin Au layer on the surface of the Ag NCs. We investigated the morphological, structural, optical, chemical, and electrical properties of the Ag NC thin films before and after Au coating. The work function of the electrodes was precisely controlled by varying the treatment time and concentration of gold chloride trihydrate (HAuCl4 center dot 3H(2)O) solutions. The thermal stability of the Au coated Ag NC thin films in air was greatly enhanced, and an extremely low resistivity of 3.4 mu Omega cm was achieved. Taking advantage of this solution-based low-temperature process and using a minimal amount of Au for cost reduction, we fabricated all-NC-based high-performance flexible photodetectors. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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