Extremely Flat Metal Films Implemented by Surface Roughness Transfer for Flexible Electronics

Overview

Journal RSC Adv

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2022 May 11

PMID 35541518

Authors

Kisoo Kim

Sungjoo Kim

Gwan Ho Jung

Ilhwan Lee

Sungjun Kim

Juyoung Ham

Wan Jae Dong

Kihyon Hong

Jong-Lam Lee

Affiliations

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Abstract

We present an innovative approach to fabricate an extremely flat (EF) metal film which was done by depositing metal on an extremely flat mother substrate, then detaching the metal from the substrate. The detached flexible metal films had a roughness that was within 2% of the roughness of the mother substrate, so EFs with < 1 nm could be fabricated using the surface roughness transfer method. With quantitative analysis using synchrotron XPS, it was concluded that the chemical reaction of oxygen atoms with the metal film played a critical role in designing a peel-off system to get extremely flat metal films from the mother substrate. The OLED was successfully implemented on the metal film. The OLED's luminance could be increased from 15 142 to 17 100 cd m at 25 mA m by replacing the glass substrate with an EF copper (Cu) substrate, due to the enhanced heat dissipation during the operation. This novel method can be very useful for mass production of large scale, low-cost and high quality metal films using roll-to-roll process.

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