Zinc oxide (ZnO) has been applied as a transparent heater. However, research on ZnO microrod as transparent heaters has not been developed. In this study, the fabrication of microrod ZnO was carried out by using the chemical bath deposition method. The material used is zinc nitrate tetrahydrate and hexamethylentetramine. The variables in this study were the concentration of seed solutions of 0.005, 0.010, 0.015, 0.025, and 0.050 M and the hydrothermal treatment in the sample 0.015 M. The characterization of ZnO microrod was carried out using XRD, FESEM, UV-Vis and four point probes. The results showed an increase in solution concentration was able to reduce the energy band gap, Eg of ZnO microrod which is 3.60 to 3.18 eV and increase the size of the crystallite which is 41.541 to 95.076 nm. The largest diameter of ZnO microrod is 288.252 nm at a concentration of 0.015 M. In addition, an increase in the concentration of the solution causes transmittance and resistivity to decrease, from 72% to 35% and from 0.787 x10-4 to 0.013 x 10-4 Ωcm, respectively. The hydrothermal treatment of 0.015 M sample caused a decrease in diameter from 288. 252 to 125.824 nm and increased the size of the crystallite and lowered Eg, from 71.198 to 165.696 nm and from 3.25 to 3.19 eV, respectively. In addition, it has decreases transmittance and resistivity from 50.5% to 38% and from 1.126 x 10-4 to 0.833 x 10-4 Ωcm, respectively. The hydrothermal treatment produces optimum transparent heaters.
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