Improved Electrochemical Cycling Durability in a Nickel Oxide Double-Layered Film

Shuai Hou; Xiang Zhang; Yanlong Tian; Jiupeng Zhao; Hongbin Geng; Huiying Qu; Hangchuan Zhang; Kun Zhang; Binsheng Wang; Alexander Gavrilyuk; Yao Li

doi:10.1002/asia.201700994

Improved Electrochemical Cycling Durability in a Nickel Oxide Double-Layered Film

Chem Asian J. 2017 Nov 16;12(22):2922-2928. doi: 10.1002/asia.201700994. Epub 2017 Oct 18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of technology, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China.
² Centre for Composite Material, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China.
³ School of Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China.
⁴ The Academy of Quality Supervision and Inspection, in Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China.
⁵ Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, Polytekhnicheskaya 26, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

PMID: 28881092
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201700994

Abstract

For the first time, a crystalline-amorphous double-layered NiO_x film has been prepared by reactive radio frequency magnetron sputtering. This film has exhibited improved electrochemical cycling durability, whereas other electrochromic parameters have been maintained at the required level, namely, a short coloration/bleaching time (0.8 s/1.1 s) and an enhanced transmittance modulation range (62.2 %) at λ=550 nm. Additionally, the double-layered film has shown better reversibility than that of amorphous and crystalline single-layered films.

Keywords: amorphous materials; electrochemistry; layered compounds; nickel; thin films.