Thin film panels can be designed to be electrically conductive. Typically, thin-film panels are coated with a conductive material, such as indium tin oxide (ITO) film, which makes the entire panel electrically conductive for transmitting electrical signals or as a touch panel. Thin-film capacitive touch panels are a common example of this, and they utilize the conductive coating on the thin-film panel to sense touch operations and thus enable interactive user input.
A thin film panel is a film-like structure made of one or more materials. Common materials include:
1. polyester (PET) film: polyester film has good flexibility and abrasion resistance, and is suitable for making flexible film panels.
2. polyimide (PI) film: polyimide film has high temperature resistance, chemical resistance and high mechanical strength, suitable for some special environmental applications.
3. polyimide film coated with indium tin oxide (ITO): polyimide film coated with conductive indium tin oxide film, used to make thin film capacitive touch panels.
4. polyurethane (PU) films: polyurethane films are soft and foldable and are suitable for making customizable thin film panels.
These materials have good light transmission, flexibility and durability and can be used in display technology, sensors, batteries, photovoltaics and other applications. Different applications will choose different materials to meet specific requirements.