SPI Supplies^® Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO) Coated Microscope Slides

Selection of the busbar if one is desired

Introduction:

With or without busbar is the question. We will try to answer that question in the following several paragraphs.

In order to gain the benefit of the ITO coating, one does need the ability to make electrical connections from the coating to the power source. This can be done by the experimenter or the slides can be purchased with the busbar already applied and ready to use.

There are a number of different qualities of the busbar that one could apply. As a standard product, we offer the slides with a silver line silk screened on at the edge (or elsewhere is desired) that exhibits, when cured and dried, exhibits a surface resistivity of better than 0.2 ohms / square. The busbar is typically three micrometers in thickness with a three millimeter width.