Transparent conductors based on few-layer graphene (FLG) intercalated with ferric chloride (FeCl(3)) have an outstandingly low sheet resistance and high optical transparency. FeCl(3)-FLGs outperform the current limit of transparent conductors such as indium tin oxide, carbon-nanotube films, and doped graphene materials. This makes FeCl(3)-FLG materials the best transparent conductor for optoele...

Graphene oxide is a hydrophilic derivative of graphene to which biological macromolecules readily attach, with properties superior to those of amorphous carbon films commonly used in electron microscopy. The single-layered crystalline lattice of carbon is highly electron transparent, and exhibits conductivity higher than amorphous carbon. Hence, graphene oxide is a particularly promising substr...

ZnO nanorod arrays (NRAs) on transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films have been grown by a solution-free, catalyst-free, vapor-phase synthesis method at 600°C. TCO films, Al-doped ZnO films, were deposited on quartz substrates by magnetron sputtering. In order to study the effect of the growth duration on the morphological and optical properties of NRAs, the growth duration was changed from 3 t...

Porous nanosheet-structured nickel oxide (NiO) films were directly prepared on conductive substrates using a cost-effective and simple one-pot solution method. By incorporating cobalt (Co) dopant, the growth of vertically aligned nanosheet was promoted. However, zinc (Zn)-doped NiO film had loose-packed nanosheet-structure with relatively low coverage surface substrate compared to Co-NiO films....

Transparent conductive oxides such as indium tin oxide (ITO) substrates are commonly employed prime materials for optoelectronic applications. Enhancement in functions of devices often compels stable and robust modification the ITO substrate to improve its interfacial charge transfer characteristics. Thereby, this work, naphthyl modifier multilayer films fabricated on using conventional electro...

Tungsten trioxide (WO3) films have been coated on indium thin oxide (ITO) conductive glass substrate, using aqueous solution of peroxotungstic acid (PTA) by the sol-gel dip coating method. X-ray diffractometery (XRD) analysis confirmed monoclinic and triclinic structure for the film and powdered WO3 respectively. Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) exhibit...

The high interest in organic light-emitting device (OLED) technology is largely due to their flexibility. Up to now, indium tin oxide (ITO) films have been widely used as transparent conductive electrodes (TCE) in organic opto-electronic devices. However, ITO films, typically deposited on glass are brittle and they make it difficult to produce flexible devices, restricting their use for flexibl...