Towards full-colour tunability of inorganic electrochromic devices using ultracompact fabry-perot nanocavities

Zhen Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Shan Cong, Jian Chen, Hongzhao Sun, Zhigang Chen, Ge Song, Fengxia Geng, Qin Chen and Zhigang Zhao ()
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Zhen Wang: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Xiaoyu Wang: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Shan Cong: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Jian Chen: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Hongzhao Sun: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Zhigang Chen: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Ge Song: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Fengxia Geng: Soochow University
Qin Chen: Jinan University
Zhigang Zhao: Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Intercalation-based inorganic materials that change their colours upon ion insertion/extraction lay an important foundation for existing electrochromic technology. However, using only such inorganic electrochromic materials, it is very difficult to achieve the utmost goal of full-colour tunability for future electrochromic technology mainly due to the absence of structural flexibility. Herein, we demonstrate an ultracompact asymmetric Fabry-Perot (F-P) nanocavity-type electrochromic device formed by using partially reflective metal tungsten as the current collector and reflector layer simultaneously; this approach enables fairly close matching of the reflections at both interfaces of the WO3 thin layer in device form, inducing a strong interference. Such an interference-enhanced device that is optically manipulated at the nanoscale displays various structural colours before coloration and, further, can change to other colours including blue, red, and yellow by changing the optical indexes (n, k) of the tungsten oxide layer through ion insertion.

Date: 2020
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