'conductive thread' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a thin, flexible wire that is used for electronic circuits. For example: "This LED light requires two pieces of conductive thread to be connected to the battery".
(LED beads are like tiny glowing sequins; Ms. Lewis uses conductive thread to sew them onto fabric).
* Syuzi demonstrates how to sew and seal conductive thread by hand and on CNMAT's sewing machines.
He was wearing a denim jacket that showcased a Media Lab innovation: embroidery sewn with conductive thread, some of which served as a functional keypad.
For the rest of us, designers and others are starting to offer such merchandise online — giving it bling by way of conductive thread, sensors, batteries and small microprocessors.
In electronic textile design tasks, a small computer, sensors, and actuators are stitched together with conductive thread to create a circuit.
In 2009, Steve Hoefer, of San Francisco, who calls himself a freelance problem solver, took conductive thread — a product used by costumers to add light to fabrics — and attached it to the fingertips of a pair of regular gloves.
For our prototype, we paint a conductive silicone rubber on a single layer of textile and stitch conductive threads.
AFM and conductive AFM imaging reveal the presence of highly conductive threading dislocations which lead to excessive reverse-bias leakage current flow in Schottky diodes.
Meanwhile, electronics engineers are sewing conductive threads and sensors into body suits that map users' whereabouts and respond to environmental stimuli.
And it was from kite-surfing, a sport that relies on the strength of the ropes tethering a surfer to a wind-drawn parachute, that Griffith drew the idea for smart ropes, in which embedded conductive threads reveal developing weaknesses.
Nanotechnology innovations under development in our Nanoworld laboratories include: big area synthesis of arrays and processing this highly aligned and pure CNT material into light, strong and electrically conductive threads and sheets.
