Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jensen, Jacob
• Hösel, Markus
• Dyer, Aubrey L.
• Krebs, Frederik C.

Titel

Development and Manufacture of Polymer-Based Electrochromic Devices

Ist Teil von

• Advanced functional materials, 2015-04, Vol.25 (14), p.2073-2090

Ort / Verlag

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell subscription journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The field of organic electrochromics is reviewed here, with particular focus on how the “electrochromic” as a functional material can be brought from the current level of accurate laboratory synthesis and characterization to the device and application level through a number of suited roll‐to‐roll methods compatible with upscaling and manufacture. The successful approaches to operational devices are presented in detail, as well as areas where future research would have a high impact and accelerate the development such as highly conducting and transparent substrates, electrolytes adapted for multilayer application and morphologically stable conjugated polymers. The materials science of the electrochromic device is reviewed with particular focus on the possible manufacturing routes, the requirements they impose on the materials and the achievable overall device performance. Applications are discussed and the recent progress in realizing solid state flexible devices based on electrochromics and their combination with other advanced devices such as solar cells is reviewed along with an overview of areas where developments would have a large impact.