Doped carbon nanotubes and transparent conducting films containing the same
AssigneesInternational Business Machines Corporation, Egypt Nanotechnology Center
InventorsMostafa M. El-Ashry, Ali Afzali-Ardakani, Bhupesh Chandra, George S. Tulevski
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Abstract
Transparent conducting electrodes include a doped single walled carbon nanotube film and methods for forming the doped single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) by solution processing. The method generally includes depositing single walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in a solvent and a surfactant onto a substrate to form a single walled carbon nanotube film thereon; removing all of the surfactant from the carbon nanotube film; and exposing the single walled carbon nanotube film to a single electron oxidant in a solution such that one electron is transferred from the single walled carbon nanotubes to each molecule of the single electron oxidant.
Claims7
A transparent conducting electrode comprising:
- a transparent substrate;
- and
- a film consisting of a plurality of single-electron oxidant doped single walled carbon nanotubes deposited thereon, wherein the film is free of surfactant and is formed from single walled carbon nanotubes that are acid cleaned prior to being doped by solution processed doping with a single electron oxidant, and such that one electron is transferred from each of the carbon nanotubes to each molecule of the single electron oxidant to form a plurality of stable charge transfer complexes, and wherein further the doped single walled carbon nanotube film has a σ/α ratio of greater than 0.1.
A transparent conducting electrode comprising:
- a transparent substrate;
- and
- a film consisting of a plurality of single-electron oxidant doped single walled carbon nanotubes deposited thereon, wherein the doped single walled carbon nanotube film is free of surfactant and is formed from single walled carbon nanotubes that are acid cleaned prior to being doped by solution processed doping with a single electron oxidant, and such that one electron is transferred from each of the carbon nanotubes to each molecule of the single electron oxidant to form a plurality of stable charge transfer complexes and a plurality of holes in the film.
A transparent conducting electrode comprising:
- a flexible transparent plastic substrate;
- and
- a film consisting of a plurality of single-electron oxidant doped single walled carbon nanotubes deposited thereon, wherein the doped single walled carbon nanotube film is free of surfactant and is formed from single walled carbon nanotubes that are acid cleaned prior to being doped by solution processed doping with a single electron oxidant, and such that one electron is transferred from each of the carbon nanotubes to each molecule of the single electron oxidant to form a plurality of stable charge transfer complexes and a plurality of holes in the film.
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