Plastic has good thermal and electrical conductivity, is easily processed, and cheap, so it has been widely used in many fields of electromagnetic components as a substitute for metal. But as modern society becomes highly advanced to bring out many kinds of electronics and frequent use of them, its demerits is to be increasingly exposed. That is, nonconductive plastic cannot absorb or block the not-required electromagnetic energy, so it may cause the malfunction or noise from the interference caused by outer electromagnetic wave, and also give harmful effects on human body. Moreover there are cases to be damaged advanced components by dust due to static electricity discharge.

In particular, as it becomes frequent that the malfunction of electric controller of communication device resulting from electromagnetic interference (EMI), the interest for the plastic which can block this electromagnetic wave becomes raised. And it has already been started the restriction for equipping some extents shielding capacity for commercial and residential electronics in Korea as well as advanced countries.

Conductivity Extent
Surface Resistance 10E-5-10E0 10E0-10E6 10E6-10E13 10E13-10E16
Classification Conductor Nonconductivity Electrostatic
Distribution
Conductor
Comparison Metal   static
electricity
prevention
Common
plastic

As it is shown in the right figure, it is disappeared by absorption that the electromagnetic wave when it is met the material during progressing, and the extent of it is dependent on the conductivity of that material. Electromagnetic Wave Shielding Effectiveness (SE) is expressed by the addition of the reflectivity of blocking material and the absorptive capacity, and it is proportional to the conductivity.

When it is expressed with resistance that the shielding effect of blocker, each of them means followings: 10E9-10E1310E6-10E9< 10E6

Conductivity additive : carbon black