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Mechanical And Optical Characterization Of Tungsten Oxynitride (W-O-N) Nano-Coatings, Oscar Roberto Nunez Jan 2015

Mechanical And Optical Characterization Of Tungsten Oxynitride (W-O-N) Nano-Coatings, Oscar Roberto Nunez

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Aation and cation doping of transition metal oxides has recently gained attention as a viable option to design materials for application in solar energy conversion, photo-catalysis, transparent electrodes, photo-electrochemical cells, electrochromics and flat panel displays in optoelectronics. Specifically, nitrogen doped tungsten oxide (WO3) has gained much attention for its ability to facilitate optical property tuning while also demonstrating enhanced photo-catalytic and photochemical properties. The effect of nitrogen chemistry and mechanics on the optical and mechanical properties of tungsten oxynitride (W-O-N) nano-coatings is studied in detail in this work. The W-O-N coatings were deposited by direct current (DC) sputtering to a …