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Previous research demonstrated that a small amount of nickel enhances the coloration efficiency of tungsten-nickel oxide electrochromic (EC) thin films with respect to that of pure tungsten oxide (WO3) films. Furthermore the incorporation of titanium gives an improvement in the durability of tungsten-titanium oxide EC thin films. In this work we investigated the EC performance of tungsten-nickel-titanium oxide (W1–x–yNixTiyO3) EC thin films with emphasis on durability. The films were deposited on indium tin oxide covered glass by reactive dc sputtering from tungsten, tungsten-titanium alloy and nickel targets. Cyclic voltammetry was performed using 1 M LiClO4 in propylene carbonate as electrolyte. The voltage window was chosen to induce fast degradation of the samples within 80 cycles. Elemental compositions were obtained by Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy.

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Sputter deposited W1–x–y Nix Tiy O3 thin films: Electrochromic properties and durability. This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. Ser. 682 012021 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/682/1/012021) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more. Download details: IP Address: 130.238.21.31 This content was downloaded on 02/03/2016 at 12:17 Please note that terms and conditions apply

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