Influence of the crystallographic texture of ITO on the electrodeposition of silver nanoparticles.

ABSTRACT: The electrochemical control over nucleation and growth of metal nanoparticles on foreign substrates is an active field of research, where the surface properties of the substrate have a key role in nucleation dynamics. Polycrystalline indium tin oxide (ITO) films are highly desired substrates for many optoelectronic applications, for which the only parameter that is often specified is the sheet resistance. As a result, growth on ITO is highly irreproducible. Here, we show that ITO substrates with same technical specifications (i.e. sheet resistance, light transmittance and roughness) and supplier may still have different crystalline texture, which we find it has a strong impact on the nucleation and growth of silver nanoparticles during electrodeposition. We find that the preferentia

SUBMITTER: Bleiji Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949353 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature