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Article

Enhanced Electrochromic Properties by Improvement of Crystallinity for Sputtered WO3 Film

by
Zhu-jie Xia
1,2,
Hong-li Wang
2,3,
Yi-fan Su
2,
Peng Tang
2,
Ming-jiang Dai
2,
Huai-jun Lin
1,
Zhi-guo Zhang
1,* and
Qian Shi
2,3,*
1
Institute of Advanced Wear and Corrosion Resistant and Functional Materials, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
2
The Key Lab of Guangdong for Modern Surface Engineering, National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Materials Surface Engineering Technology, Guangdong Institute of New Materials, Guangdong Academy of Science, Guangzhou 510651, China
3
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Coatings 2020, 10(6), 577; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10060577
Submission received: 13 May 2020 / Revised: 16 June 2020 / Accepted: 18 June 2020 / Published: 19 June 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Thin Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering)
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Abstract

Tungsten oxide (WO3) is widely used as a functional material for “smart windows” due to its excellent electrochromic properties, however it is difficult to overcome the conflict between its optical modulation and cyclic stability. In this work, WO3 thin films with different crystal structures were prepared by DC reactive magnetron sputtering method. The effects of substrate temperature on the structure, composition, and electrochromic properties of WO3 films were investigated. The results show that the crystallinity of the WO3 film increases with increasing deposition temperature, indicating that temperature plays an important role in controlling the structure of the WO3 film. For WO3 thin films formed at a substrate temperature of 573 K, the film is in an amorphous state to a crystalline transition state. From X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, the thin film showed a weak WO3 crystallization peak, which was in the composite structure of amorphous and nanocrystalline. Which has the best electrochromic properties, with modulation amplitude of 73.1% and bleached state with a coloration efficiency of 42.9 cm2/C at a wavelength of 550 nm. Even after 1500 cycles, the optical modulation still contains 65.4%, delivering the best cyclic stability.
Keywords: DC reactive magnetron sputtering; WO3 thin film; crystallinity; electrochromic; substrate temperature DC reactive magnetron sputtering; WO3 thin film; crystallinity; electrochromic; substrate temperature

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Xia, Z.-j.; Wang, H.-l.; Su, Y.-f.; Tang, P.; Dai, M.-j.; Lin, H.-j.; Zhang, Z.-g.; Shi, Q. Enhanced Electrochromic Properties by Improvement of Crystallinity for Sputtered WO3 Film. Coatings 2020, 10, 577. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10060577

AMA Style

Xia Z-j, Wang H-l, Su Y-f, Tang P, Dai M-j, Lin H-j, Zhang Z-g, Shi Q. Enhanced Electrochromic Properties by Improvement of Crystallinity for Sputtered WO3 Film. Coatings. 2020; 10(6):577. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10060577

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Xia, Zhu-jie, Hong-li Wang, Yi-fan Su, Peng Tang, Ming-jiang Dai, Huai-jun Lin, Zhi-guo Zhang, and Qian Shi. 2020. "Enhanced Electrochromic Properties by Improvement of Crystallinity for Sputtered WO3 Film" Coatings 10, no. 6: 577. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10060577

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Xia, Z.-j., Wang, H.-l., Su, Y.-f., Tang, P., Dai, M.-j., Lin, H.-j., Zhang, Z.-g., & Shi, Q. (2020). Enhanced Electrochromic Properties by Improvement of Crystallinity for Sputtered WO3 Film. Coatings, 10(6), 577. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings10060577

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