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Fabrication of Graphene-Based Transparent Conducting Thin Films

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Graphene for Transparent Conductors

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Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown graphene and graphene oxide (GO) have been the main starting materials to produce graphene-based transparent conductors (TCs). For the CVD-grown graphene, the underlying substrates need to be removed so that the graphene sheets can be transferred onto the device substrates. Several strategies have been developed to transfer graphene sheets, and they include the etching and stamping method, thermal release method, photoresist method, roll-to-roll transfer method, and general method. Another low-cost route to produce graphene-based TCs on a large scale is to synthesize GO thin films and then reduce them. The ease of solution process of GO sheets due to their high solubility in aqueous solutions has made it a more viable and favorable approach. Once a GO dispersion is produced, GO films can be formed on a substrate using different deposition techniques, including electrophoretic deposition (EPD), spin coating, spray coating, dip coating, transfer printing, Langmuir–Blodgett (L–B) assembly, rod coating, and inkjet coating.

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Zheng, Q., Kim, JK. (2015). Fabrication of Graphene-Based Transparent Conducting Thin Films. In: Graphene for Transparent Conductors., vol 23. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2769-2_3

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