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Absorption and electrochromic modulation of near-infrared light: realized by tungsten suboxide
Guilian Li1, Shouhao Zhang2, Chongshen Guo2
1Key Laboratory of Microsystems and Micronanostructures Manufacturing (Ministry of Education), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, P. R. China. shaoqinliu@hit.edu.cn chongshenguo@hit.edu.cn and Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, PR China.
Abstract:
In the present study, needle-like tungsten suboxide W18O49 nanocrystals were fabricated as the optical active substance to realize the aim of optical control of near-infrared light. The W18O49 nanocrystals were selected in this regard due to their unique optical performance. As revealed by the powder absorption result, the needle-like W18O49 nanocrystals show strong and wide photoabsorption in the entire near infrared region of 780-2500 nm, from which thin films with the W18O49 nanocrystal coating thus benefits and can strongly shield off almost all near infrared irradiation, whereas transmitting the majority of visible light. To make it more tunable, the W18O49 nanocrystals were finally assembled onto an ITO glass via the layer-by-layer strategy for later electrochromic investigation. The nanostructured architectures of the W18O49 nanocrystal electrochromic films exhibit high contrast, faster switching response, higher coloration efficiencies (150 cm(2) C(-1) at 650 nm and 255 cm(2) C(-1) at 1300 nm), better long-term redox switching stability (reversibility of 98% after 500 cycles) and wide electrochromic spectrum coverage of both the visible and infrared regions.
