Improving temperature-stable AZO-Ag-AZO multilayer transparent electrodes using thin Al layer modification

Lin Zhou; Xiaohong Chen; Feng Zhu; Xinxing Sun; Zhuo Sun

doi:10.1088/0022-3727/45/50/505103

Improving temperature-stable AZO-Ag-AZO multilayer transparent electrodes using thin Al layer modification

Lin Zhou^*
, Xiaohong Chen
, Feng Zhu
, Xinxing Sun
, Zhuo Sun

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Physics and Electronic Science

East China Normal University

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Abstract

The thermal stability of AZO/Al/Ag/Al/AZO (5A) compared with AZO/Ag/AZO (3A) electrodes was significantly improved by introducing a thin Al layer at the interface between Ag and AZO layers. The rapidly deteriorated sheet resistance of 3A compared with 5A electrodes is roughly consistent with the XRD results of weaker intensity of the (1 1 1) Ag peak of 3A after annealing for 20 h at 300 or 500°C for 10 min. The improved thermal stability of the 5A electrode is ascribed to the limitation function of Al atoms on Ag diffusion into the AZO layer. The polymer solar cells based on 5A compared with ITO electrodes showed a similar efficiency.

Original language	English
Article number	505103
Journal	Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Volume	45
Issue number	50
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/45/50/505103
State	Published - 19 Dec 2012

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