2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of Switchable Mirror with Palladium Substitution Catalyst and Evaluation of Its Optical Switching Properties

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21760570
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Structural/Functional materials
Research Institution	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Principal Investigator	TAJIMA Kazuki National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, サステナブルマテリアル研究部門, 研究員 (50443198)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2010
Keywords	機能性薄膜 / スパッタリング / プロトン / 触媒 / 光学特性 / スイッチング / 調光
Research Abstract	A switchable mirror glass (device) can change its state between reflective and transparent by moving protons. The device includes a catalyst layer of palladium metal. In the practical applications, it is required to reduce and disuse expansive and poor resource material of palladium. In this work, the catalyst with some kinds of materials to reduce total amount of palladium and the catalyst without palladium metals were developed. For example, the device with catalyst which was reduced 80% of amount of palladium can show its optical switching properties same as conventional device.