Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices

Wu Zhang; Haizeng Li; William W. Yu; Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi

doi:10.1038/s41377-020-00366-9

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Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices

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- Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 9, Issue 4, Pages: 1186-1196(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2V4, Canada
  2.Department of Chemistry and Physics, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA 71115, USA
- Author bio：
  
  Haizeng Li (haizeng@ualberta.ca)
  Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi (elezzabi@ualberta.ca)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-020-00366-9
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- Published：2020，
  
  Published Online：14 July 2020，
  
  Received：11 April 2020，
  
  Revised：15 June 2020，
  
  Accepted：03 July 2020
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Zhang, W. et al. Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1186-1196 (2020).
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Zhang, W. et al. Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 1186-1196 (2020). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-020-00366-9.

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Electrochromic displays have been the subject of extensive research as a promising colour display technology. The current state-of-the-art inorganic multicolour electrochromic displays utilize nanocavity structures that sacrifice transparency and thus limit their diverse applications. Herein

we demonstrate a transparent inorganic multicolour display platform based on Zn-based electrochromic devices. These devices enable independent operation of top and bottom electrochromic electrodes

thus providing additional configuration flexibility of the devices through the utilization of dual electrochromic layers under the same or different colour states. Zn–sodium vanadium oxide (Zn–SVO) electrochromic displays were assembled by sandwiching Zn between two SVO electrodes

and they could be reversibly switched between multiple colours (orange

amber

yellow

brown

chartreuse and green) while preserving a high optical transparency. These Zn–SVO electrochromic displays represent the most colourful transparent inorganic-based electrochromic displays to date. In addition

the Zn–SVO electrochromic displays possess an open-circuit potential (OCP) of 1.56 V

which enables a self-colouration behaviour and compelling energy retrieval functionality. This study presents a new concept integrating high transparency and high energy efficiency for inorganic multicolour displays.

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