Transparent conductive films (TCFs) are critical components of a myriad of technologies including flat panel displays, light-emitting diodes, and solar cells. Graphene-based TCFs have attracted a lot of attention because of their high electrical conductivity, transparency, and low cost. Carrier doping of graphene would potentially improve the properties of graphene-based TCFs for practical indu...

In this work, we report a simple and scalable solution-based method to deposit nanoscale material thin films. We have demonstrated uniform thin films fabricated by a flash dry deposition method, including carbon nanotubes and polyaniline nanofibers. The films are electrically uniform across an entire area of 8 inches by 8 inches in size. This method can be applied to other nanoscale materials a...

Monolayer Cu₂S and ZnO, and three kinds of complex films, Cu₂S/ZnO, ZnO/Cu₂S, and ZnO/Cu₂S/ZnO, were deposited on glass substrates by means of radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering device. The impact of the thickness of ZnO and Cu₂S on the whole transmittance, conductivity, and photocatalysis was investigated. The optical and electrical properties of the multilayer were studied by optical s...

Flexible, highly conductive and transparent electronic materials are critically important areas of active research. Metals, although being excellent conductors are largely brittle and have increasingly poor conductance when strained. Moreover, metals are optically opaque at the technologically relevant sub-100 nm node. Serpentine Au thin films embedded in elastomeric membranes have gone some wa...

Microelectronics technological processes are most complicated and consist of many un-predicted factors on the final device parameters. Thin films deposition methods based on magnetron plasma sputtering are influenced by lots of independent active factors. These deposition methods bring along uncertainty in the precise design process of electronic components. Thus, intelligent modeling process i...

Current development of high-performance transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films is limited with tradeoff between carrier mobility and concentration since none of them can be improved without sacrificing the other. In this study, we prepare fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) films by chemical vapor deposition with inclusions of different additives and report that the mobility can be varied from 0.6...

Highly conductive (conductivity 620 S cm−1) and transparent ITO thin films are achieved at low temperature (350 °C) through effective combustion solution processing via multistep coating. The properties show potential for next generation flexible electronics.

Conductive and transparent multilayer thin films consisting of three alternating layers (TiO2/Ag/SiO2, TAS) have been fabricated for applications as transparent conducting oxides. Metal oxide and metal layers were prepared by electron-beam evaporation with ion-assisted deposition, and the optical and electrical properties of the resulting films as well as their energy bounding characteristics a...

Theoretical estimates indicate that graphene thin films can be used as transparent electrodes for thin-film devices such as solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes, with an unmatched combination of sheet resistance and transparency. We demonstrate organic light-emitting diodes with solution-processed graphene thin film transparent conductive anodes. The graphene electrodes were deposited ...