Investigations on reduced graphene oxide film embedded with silver nanowire as a transparent conducting electrode

•Synthesised silver nanowire (AgNW) has a diameter of ~70 nm with a length of ~8 µm.•AgNW/rGO TCE was fabricated with minimum number of dipping cycles of 1–5.•AgNW/rGOTCE shows a sheet resistance of 27 Ω/□ with 72% transmittance (at 550 nm).•AgNW/rGO TCEs show a good stability than the pristine AgNW TCEs.

A simple and effective transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs) based on reduced graphene oxide film embedded with silver nanowire- (AgNW-rGO) was developed. The AgNW-rGO hybrid electrode was fabricated by using a simple and scalable dip-coating method. This solution processed TCEs showed high electrical conductivity when compared with pristine AgNW. AgNW-rGO TCEs also exhibited better stability than the pristine AgNW film when exposed to the ambient atmosphere. The electrical conductivity is found to increase by 4-fold with increase in the number of dipping cycles of AgNW after coating the graphene oxide (GO). This increase in the observed conductivity is attributed to the gas-barrier property of GO. AgNW/rGO TCEs exhibited a sheet resistance of 27 Ω/□ with transparency=72% at 550 nm.

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