Analysis of the optical and electrical properties of multilayer photoelectrochromic glass prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering
摘要
In this work, titanium dioxide doped with nitrogen (N-doped TiO2), as electrochromic layer (EC), and nickel oxide (NiO), as ion storage layer (IS), have been synthesized by dc reactive magnetron sputtering technique. The synthesized layers have been characterized using x- ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Energy-Dispersive X-Ray (EDX) Spectroscopy, Fouriertransform infrared (FTIR) and UV-visible spectroscopy. He nanostructures of these layers, on both silica and indium tin oxide (ITO) substrates, have been investigated and determined. The photoelectrochromic device with the configuration of glass/ITO/ TiO2_N /NiO/KOH/Pt/glass has been fabricated and characterized. The multilayers configuration of this photo electrochromic device has been tested by applying ± 3.4 V voltages with xenon-light irradiation. The results showed a decrease in transmittance values to 23% in the mixed phase, compared to 34.5% in the single phase at 525 nm wavelength. The results confirm an improvement in the coloring process after using the mixed phase of TiO2_N as a result of the increased oxidation process.