Developed for foldable electronics, HY E PEDOT:PSS - AgNW/PEDOT:PSS is a water based hybrid dispersion of silver nanowires (AgNW) and PEDOT:PSS with the best properties and strength of both technologies. The conductive polymer can reduce the surface resistance of flexible foldable touch displays by more than 50%, thereby improving the conductivity and light transmittance of the ultra-thin conductive display layer and providing inherent electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. Silver nanowires provide low resistance and high transmission properties in the transparent coating electrode layer.

Rollable and foldable touch displays require all components in solid state films to be mechanically flexible, durable, and robust for a long lifetime endurance. HY E PEDOT:PSS offers over 300,000 bending life cycles at an extreme radius of only 1 mm, owing to the outstanding and intrinsically flexible properties of the conductive polymer PEDOT:PSS.

AgNW/PEDOT:PSS hybrid materials provides the following physical properties:

• Aqueous formulation, ready to deposit
• Good wetting and adhesion to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), transparent polyimide (CPI), and polycarbonate (PC)
• Excellent SR isotropy and built-in ESD protection
• Stable SR after > 300,000 bendings at R = 1 mm radius
• Cost effective solution processing, i.e. spin-coating
• Low sheet resistance, adjustable from 15 – 150 Ω/square
• High transmission > 95 %

• Laser and wet patternable

Technical Data

* 24 μm coating on PET with sheet resistance of < 25 Ω/sq (wet) and 15 Ω/sq (dried for 5 min at 120 °C in an oven)