Patent ID: 8432598

Claim:
A transparent conductor structure, comprising: a transparent, insulating substrate; and a discontinuous, transparent conducting charge-dissipating layer established on the substrate, the discontinuous conducting layer partitioned into a plurality of discrete segments having gaps between adjacent discrete segments, at least two of the plurality of discrete segments being a transparent electrode, each of the plurality of segments having a thickness ranging from about 1 nm to about 10 μm, the plurality of segments having two or more segments operatively connected together by i) a metal trace operatively disposed on or between the two or more segments, or ii) a mesh, formed from a plurality of the metal traces, operatively disposed across a surface of the plurality of segments; wherein the transparent conducting charge-dissipating layer and the metal trace or the mesh of metal traces is to enable electric charge to be substantially uniformly distributed across the surface of the transparent conductor structure; and wherein the transparent conductor structure is incorporated into a display element and has a clear aperture ratio ranging from 50% to 99%, the clear aperture ratio being the ratio of a transparent region area to a total area of the display element including transparent and opaque regions.