1Science and Humanities Department, BITS Education Campus, Vadodara, India
2Department of Electronics, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh, Vidyanagar, 388120, Gujarat, India
3Applied Physics Department, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara-390001, India
*E-mail: cjpanchal_msu@yahoo.com
Online published on 1 March, 2016.
Solid-state reflection modulation electrochromic device (ECD) will have a significant place in future automobile rear-view mirrors and thermal control. In the present study we have prepared "solidstate ECD" structure consisting of layers Al/WO3/ZrO2/NiO/‘ITO’ on a glass substrate using physical vapor deposition method. The fundamental electrochromic characteristic viz. reflectance modulation and switching time are measured on the fabricated prototype ECD. The device shows 65% reflections modulation (75%-10%) in the visible region of light with the coloration and bleaching time of 100 s and 300 s, respectively.
Electrochromic device; Physical vapor deposition; Reflectance modulation; Switching time
