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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 90, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5115119
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- Swedish Research Council [VR-2016-03713]
- University of Costa Rica
- Vinnova [2016-03713] Funding Source: Vinnova
- Swedish Research Council [2016-03713] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
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Combined frequency-resolved techniques are suitable to study electrochromic (EC) materials. We present an experimental setup for simultaneous electrochemical and color impedance studies of EC systems in transmission mode and estimate its frequency-dependent uncertainty by measuring the background noise. We define the frequency-dependent variables that are relevant to the combined measurement scheme, and a special emphasis is given to the complex optical capacitance and the complex differential coloration efficiency, which provide the relation between the electrical and optical responses. Results of a test measurement on amorphous WO3 with LED light sources of peak wavelengths of 470, 530, and 810 nm are shown and discussed. In this case, the amplitude of the complex differential coloration efficiency presented a monotonous increase down to about 0.3 Hz and was close to a constant value for lower frequencies. We study the effect of the excitation voltage amplitude on the linearity of the electrical and optical responses for the case of amorphous WO3 at 2.6 V vs Li/Li+, where a trade-off should be made between the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the optical signal and the linearity of the system. For the studied case, it was possible to increase the upper accessible frequency of the combined techniques (defined in this work as the upper threshold of the frequency region for which the SNR of the optical signal is greater than 5) from 11.2 Hz to 125.9 Hz while remaining in the linear regime with a tolerance of less than 5%. (C) 2019 Author(s).
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