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From: Improved Flexible Transparent Conductive Electrodes based on Silver Nanowire Networks by a Simple Sunlight Illumination Approach

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(a) Sheet resistance (Rsh) as a function of treatment time for samples treated with 1-Sun sunlight illumination (black diamonds) and thermal annealing at 200 °C (red circles), respectively. (b) Histogram of the light transmittance at 550 nm before and after different periods of time for both treatment methods in (a). The values of Rsh and light transmittance at wavelength 550 nm for a 571-nm thick ITO electrode are also indicated in Fig. 2a (blue triangle) and 2b (blue), respectively. (c) No deformation appeared when the sample was exposed to the sunlight for 1 hour. (d) Serious deformation occurred for the Ag NW network on PE after thermal annealing at 200 °C for the same period of time.

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