• 文献标题:   Improved Optical Sintering Efficiency at the Contacts of Silver Nanowires Encapsulated by a Graphene Layer
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG SB, CHOI H, LEE DS, CHOI CG, CHOI SY, KIM ID
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  • 出版物名称:   SMALL
  • ISSN:   1613-6810 EI 1613-6829
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Adv Inst Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   44
  • DOI:   10.1002/smll.201402474
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Graphene/silver nanowire (AgNWs) stacked electrodes, i.e., graphene/AgNWs, are fabricated on a glass substrate by air-spray coating of AgNWs followed by subsequent encapsulation via a wet transfer of single-layer graphene (SLG) and multilayer graphene (MLG, reference specimen) sheets. Here, graphene is introduced to improve the optical sintering efficiency of a xenon flash lamp by controlling optical transparency and light absorbing yield in stacked graphene/AgNW electrodes, facilitating the fusion at contacts of AgNWs. Intense pulsed light (IPL) sintering induced ultrafast (<20 ms) welding of AgNW junctions encapsulated by graphene, resulting in approximately a four-fold reduction in the sheet resistance of IPL-treated graphene/AgNWs compared to that of IPL-treated AgNWs. The role of graphene in IPL-treated graphene/AgNWs is further investigated as a passivation layer against thermal oxidation and sulfurization. This work demonstrates that optical sintering is an efficient way to provide fast welding of Ag wire-to-wire junctions in stacked electrodes of graphene/AgNWs, leading to enhanced conductivity as well as superior long-term stability under oxygen and sulfur atmospheres.