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Most heating elements use Nichrome wire or ribbon as the conductor. Nichrome is an ideal material as it is inexpensive, has relatively high resistance, and does not break down or oxidize in air in its useful temperature range.

There are four kinds of commercial heating elements:
  • Bare Nichrome wire or ribbon: Either straight or coiled, usually found in toasters and hair dryers.

  • Calrod (sealed element): a fine coil of Nichrome wire in a ceramic binder, sealed inside a tough metal shell. These can be a straight rod (as in Toaster Oven s) or curved to fit in a smaller space (such as in electric Stove s, Oven s, and Coffee Maker s).

  • Quartz incandescent bulb: a tubular high power Incandescent Lamp usually run at less than maximum power to radiate mostly infrared instead of visible light. These are usually found in Radiant Space Heaters .

  • and Lead Titanate Composites ) has a highly nonlinear thermal response, so that it becomes extremely resistive above a composition-dependent Threshold temperature. This behavior causes the material to act as its own Thermostat , since current passes when it is cool, and does not when it is hot. Thin Film s of this material are used in automotive rear-window defrost heaters, and honeycomb-shaped elements are used in more expensive Hairdryers and space heaters.


Heating elements for high-temperature Furnace s are often made of exotic materials, including Platinum , Molybdenum Disilicide , and Silicon Carbide .


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