Transparent electronic conductors in electrochromic devices
- Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., Hyogo (Japan). Central Research Lab.
Materials with both high transparency and high electrical conductance have recently attracted growing technological interest. Applications of such materials include coatings for windows with ability of deicing and demisting, coatings, for electromagnetic shielding and antistatic coatings. Today, their application has been extended toward optoelectronic devices. They are being used for the fabrication of a variety of devices such as photovoltaic devices, display devices and light control devices which include electrochromic devices. Here, transparent electronic conductors are discussed with regard to their properties required by electrochromic devices at first. Since an electrochromic device is a so called current-driven device, it requires substantially low electrical resistance. In fact, the performance of transparent electrodes is one of the key factors to limit the performance of the electrochromic devices today. Next, materials having a potential to satisfy the device requirements are reviewed. Candidates are thin metals and heavily doped semiconductors with wide band gap. Among them wide gap semiconductors, especially metal oxides, are more relevant than metals with respect to chemical durability and electrical and optical performances. Coating technologies for large area transparent electrodes are presented for two special cases; one is chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology for tin oxide coating and the other is sputtering technology for indium tin oxide(ITO) coating. Both are widely recognized as materials showing superior performance, and in fact they are commonly used for the above mentioned applications.
- OSTI ID:
- 86094
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8809123-; ISBN 0-8194-0069-6; TRN: IM9534%%166
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International congress on optical science and engineering, Hamburg (Germany), 13-23 Sep 1988; Other Information: PBD: 1990; Related Information: Is Part Of Large-area chromogenics: Materials and devices for transmittance control. Volume IS 4; Lampert, C.M. [ed.] [Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)]; Granqvist, C.G. [ed.] [Chalmers Univ. of Technology and Univ. of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (Sweden)]; PB: 618 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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