Patent ID: 7883837

Claim:
A process for producing a transparent, electrically conductive film, comprising the steps of: forming a multitude of concaves and convexes having an average height of not larger than 0.1 μm on both sides or one side of a transparent film; forming a resist layer having a discrete pattern shape on the transparent film on its concave-convex side and leaving portions of the concave-convex side exposed; applying a catalyst for plating onto the concave-convex side and over both the resist layer and exposed portions; removing the resist layer from the concave-convex side, such that the catalyst is not applied on portions of the concave-convex side that had been covered by the resist layer; plating a metal layer on top of the catalyst; and blackening the metal layer, the metal layer having a width W to height T ratio, W/T, of 1≦W/T≦500.