Abstract
NiOx:H thin films were deposited on ITO-coated glass by DC reactive magnetron sputtering at room temperature. The effects of the hydrogen content on the structure, morphologies, electrochemical properties, the stoichiometry and chemical states of NiOx:H thin films were systematically studied. In X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy analysis, the crystallinity of the films tends to be weakened when the flow amount ratio of Ar:O2:H2 equals 19:1:3 and as confirmed in electrochemical analysis, such relatively weak crystallinity is the main contributing factor to ion transportation. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy reveals that the increase of the hydrogen contents results in a relatively lower binding energy exhibited in the Ni 2p spectra. The proportion of Ni2O3 in NiOx:H films increases from 22% at bleached state to 33% at colored state. A monolithic all-thin-film inorganic electrochromic device was fabricated with complementary configuration as ITO/NiOx:H/ZrO2/WO3/ITO. The electrochromic device with optimized NiOx:H thin films acting both as ion storage layer and proton-providing source displays high modulation efficiency of 68% at a fixed wavelength 550nm.
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