The development of novel methods of producing transparent
electrodes
is important because of their ever-evolving applications and thus
the additional parameters they must meet. In this work, we present
a method of manufacturing semitransparent silver electrodes. This
technique involves cracking the polyvinylpyrrolidone layer in the
presence of a colloidal nanodispersion of zinc oxide. The resulting
cracked polymer layer serves as the disposable mask for metal deposition.
The whole procedure is valuable due to the fast and easy step of cracks
formation caused by the elevated temperature and reduced pressure.
The obtained electrodes have high transparency (82.4%) in a wide spectral
range, which is only limited by the transparency of the applied substrate,
and low resistivity (27.3 × 10–7 Ωm).
The presence of unique patterns suggests new ideas for the applications
of such electrodes, such as coding, security, and antiplagiarism protection.
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