Transparent conductors exist [link].

Why not use one of these materials for the window into a microwave oven, instead of a piece of metal mesh?
-- goldbb, Aug 15 2017

Transparent conducting film https://en.wikipedi...ent_conducting_film
[goldbb, Aug 15 2017]

Possible answer to your question: they are not conductive enough. Modern electronic gadgets with touchscreen only need to handle milliwatts of power; microwave ovens routinely employ hundreds of watts of power.
-- Vernon, Aug 15 2017


A composite of wires fine enough and the conducting film might make things a bit clearer.
-- wjt, Aug 17 2017


Now can we have the same for the Faraday cage I have set up around my lab?
-- RayfordSteele, Aug 17 2017


There's a patent for microwave glasses that have two transparent conductive films, spaced 1/4 wavelength apart.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 17 2017


These glasses, if you wear them, you can see in the microwave band, right ? That would be cool ...

Is there a choice of frames ? Maybe Ray-Ban Wayfarers ?
-- 8th of 7, Aug 17 2017



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