Transparent film heaters using multi-walled carbon nanotube sheets

Jung, Daewoong; Kim, Donghyun; Lee, Kyung H.; Overzet, Lawrence J.; Lee, Gil S.

Transparent film heaters using multi-walled carbon nanotube sheets

2013

Jung, Daewoong | Kim, Donghyun | Lee, Kyung H. | Overzet, Lawrence J. | Lee, Gil S.

This paper presents carbon nanotubes (CNTs) used as transparent heaters, which offer great advantages in miniaturization, high efficiency, low power consumption, and rapid response. Previously proposed transparent single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) based heaters used to replace indium tin oxide (ITO) heaters were fabricated either by dielectrophoresis or the piece-wise alignment of read-out electronics around randomly dispersed CNTs. These methods require steps for purification, separation, and dispersion in a liquid or polymer in order to improve their electrical and optical properties. We studied a transparent film used for heating, fabricated by employing a multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) sheet. The sheet was made from a super-aligned MWCNT forest; the heater was fabricated by direct coating onto a glass substrate. The characteristics of the MWCNT sheet, i.e. a high transmittance of ∼90% and a sheet resistance of ∼756Ω/sq, are comparable to previously reported SWCNT-based transparent films. These properties are directly applicable to applications such as window tinting and defrosters in production vehicles.

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