• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.129-129
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• 2003

전기변색(electrochromism)은 전기화학적 산화, 환원 과정을 통해 가역적인 광학특성의 변화를 갖는 현상을 말하며, 이를 이용한 전기변색소자(electrochromic device)는 전력 소모가 적고 변색효율이 크다는 장점으로 인해 smart window, display, mirror 등에 응용될 수 있다. 전기변색소자는 구조상 투명 기판, 투명 전도체, 환원 착색 물질 (cathodic coloration material), 산화 착색 물질(anodic coloration material), 그리고 투명 이온 전도체로 구성된다. 일반적으로 투명 기판으로는 열적 안정성이 좋은 유리기판을 사용하여 window에 응용할 수 있는 장점이 있는 반면 다양한 형태를 갖는 소자를 제작하기에는 그 한계가 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.262-265
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• 1997

Various polymeric electrolytes were prepared from PEG, PEO and PMMA with LiClO$_4$ to develop lithium conductive electrolytes for smart windows. The complementary electrochromic devices were fabricated with these electrolytes involving cathodically coloring WO$_3$ and anodically coloring V$_2$O$\sub$5/ thin films. The performance of electrochromic device with PMMA/LiCLO$_4$ electrolyte was found to be excellent

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1994.11a
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• pp.28-31
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• 1994

We have investigated the characterization of $V_2O_{5}$ thin films as a counter electrode for lithium based complementary electrochromic devices. The amorphous $V_2O_{5}$ thin films produces comparatively small changes in transmittance in the visible and near infrared compared to the crystalline $V_2O_{5}$ thin films, while the degradation occurs in a-$V_2O_{5}$ thin films with increasing the cycle life time. As the thickness of $V_2O_{5}$ thin films increases from 100 to 600 nm, the magnitude of transmittance modulation decreases. The crystalline $V_2O_{5}$ thin films with thickness around 1000 have electrochromic properties suitable for counter electrode application in lithium based electrochromic smart windows.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.125-133
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• 2022

Along with the increasing need for point-of-care diagnostics, development of portable, user-friendly, as well as sensitive sensors have gained intensive attention. Among various strategies, electrochromic sensors, which are electrochemically operated colorimetric sensors, have been actively studied. With their ability to report the presence and concentration of analytes by optical signals, electrochromic sensors utilize the advantages of both electrochemical and colorimetric sensors, enabling the simplification of device composition as well as convenient interpretation of results. Up to date, electrochromic sensors have been applied for a wide range of analytes, and further developments such as the introduction of flexible platforms or self-powered systems have been reported, providing a path towards the development of wearable sensor devices. In this review, various types of electrochromic sensors, according to the main strategy in which the electrochemical signals are converted to colorimetric signals, are introduced.

• Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.12-22
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• 2020

전기변색 물질은 전압을 인가하였을 때 산화-환원 반응을 통해 흡수도나 투과도 같은 광학적 물성 변화를 보인다. 이러한 전기변색 물질에 기반한 전기변색 소자는 높은 투과도 변화, 낮은 구동 전압, 간단한 소자 구조 등 다양한 장점을 가지고 있어 차세대 투명 디스플레이로 각광받고 있다. 최근에는 이러한 전기변색 소자에 변색 특성 이외에 유연성 및 에너지 저장성 등 다양한 기능을 추가하는 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 본 기고문에서는 전기변색 소자의 기본적인 구동 원리 및 다기능 개발 동향 등에 대해 알아보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.161-161
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• 1997

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.407.1-407.1
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• 2016

Electrochromism is defined as a phenomenon which involves persistently repeated change of optical properties between bleached state and colored state by simultaneous injection of electrons and ions, sufficient to induce an electrochemical redox process. Due to this feature, considerable progress has been made in the synthesis of electrochromic (EC) materials, improvements of EC properties in EC devices such as light shutter, smart window and variable reflectance mirrors etc. Among the variable EC materials, solid-state inorganics in particular, metal oxide semiconducting materials such as nickel oxide (NiO) have been investigated extensively. The NiO that is an anodic EC material is of special interest because of high color contrast ratio, large dynamic range and low material cost. The high performance EC devices should present the use of standard industrial production techniques to produce films with high coloration efficiency, rapid switching speed and robust reversibility. Generally, the color contrast and the optical switching speed increase drastically if high surface area is used. The structure of porous thin film provides a specific surface area and can facilitate a very short response time of the reaction between the surface and ions. The large variety of methods has been used to prepare the porous NiO thin films such as sol-gel process, chemical bath deposition and sputtering. Few studies have been reported on NiO thin films made by using sol-gel method. However, compared with dry process, wet processes that have the questions of the durability and the vestige of bleached state color limit the thin films practical use, especially when prepared by sol-gel method. In this study, we synthesis the porous NiO thin films on the fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) glass by using sputtering and anodizing method. Also we compared electrical and optical properties of NiO thin films prepared by sol gel. The porous structure is promised to be helpful to the properties enhancement of the EC devices.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.155-161
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• 2002

We studied the formation of nickel nano thin film that have various electrochromic properties. Nickel thin film having various thickness will apply photoelectronic devices, specially, electrochromic devices. These devices will apply lens, battery, glass and solar cell that have light, thin, simple and small that applied nanotechnology and quantum dot. Nickel thin film was coated by electrochemical method on ITO electrode. We studied the thin film properties by Cyclic voltammetry, Chronoamperometry. Impedance. X-ray diffraction analysis and Atomic force microscopy.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.128-128
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• 2003

Electrochromism (EC) is defined as a phenomenon in which a change in color takes place in the presence of an applied voltage. Because of their low power consumption, high coloration efficiency, EC devices have a variety of potential applications in smart windows, mirror, and optical switching devices. An EC devices generally consist of a transparent conducting layer, electrochromic cathodic and anodic coloring materials and an ion conducting electrolyte. EC has been widely studied in transition metal oxides(e.g., WO$_3$, NiO, V$_2$O$\sub$5/) Among these materials, WO$_3$ is a most interesting material for cathodic coloration materials due to its lush coloration efficiency (CE), large dynamic range, cyclic reversibility, and low cost material. WO$_3$ films have been prepared by a variety of methods including vacuum evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, electrodeposition process, sol-gel synthesis, sputtering, and laser ablation. Sol-gel process is widely used for oxide film at low temperature in atmosphere and requires lower capital investment to deposit large area coating compared to vacuum deposition process.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.1144-1147
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• 1999

The effect of the heat treatment on electrochromic properties of $\textrm{MoO}_3$ thin films is investigated by studing optical modulation, optical density, response time, and cyclic voltammetry. From the results of XRD analysis, heat-treated at $450^{\circ}C$ in air for 1 hour Moo3 thin films are found to be crystalline while as-deposited and heat- treated at low temperature ($\leq\;300^{\circ}C$) film are amorphous. The electrochromic devices using as-deposited $\textrm{MoO}_3$ films exhibit good electrochromic properties compared to those using the heat treated $\textrm{MoO}_3$ films. It has shown that the heat-treatment affected the reversible color change and the electrochromic properties of $\textrm{MoO}_3$ films.