Highly flexible and transparent conducting silver nanowire/ZnO composite film for organic solar cells

Abstract

High efficiency and flexible inverted organic solar cells have been fabricated using solution-processed silver nanowire/zinc oxide composite transparent electrodes. The transparent electrodes showed a low sheet resistance of ∼13 Ω·sq−1 and high transmittance of ∼93% as well as superior mechanical flexibility. Power conversion efficiencies of ∼7.57% and ∼7.21% were achieved for devices fabricated on glass and plastic substrate, respectively. Moreover, the flexible devices did not show any degradation in their performance even after being folded with a radius of ∼480 μm.