Optical and radio-frequency properties of silver mesh transparent conductor with irregular structure

The article presents the results of studying the optical and radio-frequency properties of silver irregular mesh transparent conductors obtained using an original self-organized template. It is shown that variation in the thickness of the deposited silver allows easy control of the surface resistance, which is the determining factor affecting the transmission in the radio-frequency range. In particular, we have obtained an irregular silver mesh, which has a surface resistance of 1.44 Ω/sq with an optical transparency in the visible range of about
~81%. This combination of optoelectric parameters made it possible to achieve an extremely low transmittance in the range of 0.7−14 GHz, an average of -37.34 dB over the range, which means that this mesh blocks 99.9815% of radiowave.