Conductive material also UV transparent ?

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Hi all,

For a while now I have been searching for an electrically conductive material which is also UV transparent.

Anyone here has come across such a material (solid or liquid) ?

Thanks :)

wajagawa

Hi,

I am not deeply familiar with electromagnetic and optical properties of materials (But, I am taking a course currently). Anyway, I just did a little googling and found this article (doi:10.1016/S0040-6090(02)00202-X) on beta Ga₂O₃.

I think what you may want to do in order to increase the number of materials found that are both electrically conductive and UV transparent is to find a good material's properties reference text, search around for scholarly articles, and/or try searching the Knovel database (if you have university access).

Out of curiosity, why are you looking for a material with these specific properties? I am going to guess for some sort of energy harvesting array (among other possibilities).

Best of luck.

DrDu

All conductors become transparent somewhere in the UV at the so called plasma frequency.