High-contrast and fast electrochromic switching enabled by plasmonics

Ting Xu; Erich C. Walter; Amit Agrawal; Christopher Bohn; Jeyavel Velmurugan; Wenqi Zhu; Henri J. Lezec; A. Alec Talin

doi:10.1038/ncomms10479

Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

High-contrast and fast electrochromic switching enabled by plasmonics

Ting Xu,
Erich C. Walter,
Amit Agrawal,
Christopher Bohn,
Jeyavel Velmurugan,
Wenqi Zhu,
Henri J. Lezec,
A. Alec Talin

Affiliations

Ting Xu: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing 210093, China
Erich C. Walter: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Amit Agrawal: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Christopher Bohn: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jeyavel Velmurugan: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Wenqi Zhu: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Henri J. Lezec: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology
A. Alec Talin: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10479
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Slow switching speeds in device configurations have severely limited the applications of electrochromic materials. Here, Xu et al. use plasmonic nanoslit arrays and demonstrate fast, high-contrast, monochromatic and full-colour electrochromic switching using two different electrochromic polymers.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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