Patent ID: 7153544

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a transparent electro-conductive film comprising: forming a primary layer on a polymer film by coating a silicon compound or a liquid substance including the silicon compound, or depositing the silicon compound by vapor-deposition, and forming a multi-lamination film comprising at least one metal-compound layer and at least one electro-conductive-metal layer on the primary layer, wherein said process of forming the primary layer is conducted by depositing the silicon compound on the polymer film by a physical vapor deposition process including vacuum spraying process, sputtering process, ion plating process, or by a chemical vapor-deposition process, wherein said sputtering process employs Si, SiC, SiO, SiO 2 , or Si 3 N 4 as a target material, and wherein said SiC target material has a density of 2.9 g/cm 3 or greater.