Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 43, Issue 9, 0931001(2023)
Design and Fabrication of New Curtain-Like WO3-Based Electrochromic Color-Changing Devices
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Guoxin Chen, Haoyuan Chen, Zhiyong Zhang, Chenchen Zhang, Xiufeng Tang, Yunfeng Zhan, Jianyi Luo. Design and Fabrication of New Curtain-Like WO3-Based Electrochromic Color-Changing Devices[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2023, 43(9): 0931001
Category: Thin Films
Received: Oct. 11, 2022
Accepted: Nov. 25, 2022
Published Online: May. 9, 2023
The Author Email: Tang Xiufeng (tbrenda@sina.com), Zhan Yunfeng (zhanyf6@163.com), Luo Jianyi (luojiany@mail3.sysu.edu.cn)