Quantum Dots: Technical Status and Market Prospects

Quantum Dots: Technical Status and Market Prospects

Chapter-1: SUMMARY

• SUMMARY TABLE GLOBAL MARKET GROWTH FOR QUANTUM DOTS IN PROMISING TECHNOLOGY SECTORS, THROUGH 2013 ($ MILLIONS) 0
• SUMMARY FIGURE GLOBAL MARKET GROWTH FOR QUANTUM DOTS IN PROMISING COMMERCIAL MARKET SECTORS, 2008- 2013 ($ MILLIONS) 0

Chapter-2: OVERVIEW

• WHAT IS A QUANTUM DOT?
• HISTORY OF QUANTUM DOTS
  • TABLE 1 CHRONOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF QDS: FROM RESEARCH CURIOSITY THROUGH COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM DOTS
  • FIGURE 1 LUMINESCENCE SIZE REGIMES FOR DIFFERENT SEMICONDUCTOR AND METAL QUANTUM DOTS
  • TABLE 2 COMPARISON OF EMISSION WAVELENGTH OF SC AND METAL NC QUANTUM DOTS AS A FUNCTION OF THEIR SIZE
• QUANTUM DOT INDUSTRY 5
  • TABLE 3 OTHER PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM DOTS
• APPLICATIONS AND STRUCTURAL TYPES OF QUANTUM DOTS
• STRUCTURAL TYPES
  • TABLE 4 HIERARCHY AND VARIOUS STRUCTURAL TYPES OF QDS
  • TABLE 4 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 4 (CONTINUED)
• COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 5 QD MATERIAL TYPES AND THEIR COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 5 (CONTINUED)
• KEY TECHNOLOGIES
  • TABLE 6 KEY QUANTUM DOT TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 6 (CONTINUED)
• Patent Analysis

Chapter-3: TECHNOLOGY

• SYNTHESIS OF METAL CHALCOGENIDE QUANTUM DOTS
• VAPOR PHASE
  • TABLE 7 QUANTUM DOT PRODUCTION METHODS
  • TABLE 7 (CONTINUED)
• Aerosol Drop Method
• Melt Atomization
• Chemical Vapor Deposition
• Physical Vapor Deposition
• Molecular Beam Epitaxy
• LIQUID PHASE (“WET” COLLOID CHEMISTRY)
• Colloid
• Batch Process
• Continuous Flow
• Precipitation
• SYNTHESIS OF NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON QDS
• LIQUID PHASE SYNTHESIS
  • TABLE 8 VARIOUS METHODS USED FOR SI-NC SYNTHESIS
  • TABLE 8 (CONTINUED)
• SOLID-PHASE SYNTHESIS
• VAPOR-PHASE SYNTHESIS
• SYNTHESIS OF NANOCRYSTALLINE METALS AND QDS
  • TABLE 9 VARIOUS SYNTHETIC METHODS AND PHOTOPHYSICAL BEHAVIOR OF METAL-NCS
  • TABLE 9 (CONTINUED)
• ASSEMBLY OF QUANTUM DOT STRUCTURES
  • TABLE 10 QUANTUM DOT STRUCTURE ASSEMBLY METHODS
• LITHOGRAPHY
• Conventional Methods
• Nanolithography
• BOTTOM-UP SELF ASSEMBLY
• Cast Film
• Langmuir-Blodgett
• Layer-by-Layer
• Metamaterials
• Biomolecular Self-Assembly
• OTHER TECHNIQUES
• Digital Printing
• Digital Printing (Continued)
• Nanoporous Templates 32

Chapter-4: PATENT ANALYSIS

• RATIONALE
• U.S. PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO) SEARCH
• CHRONOLOGICAL GROWTH TRENDS IN USPTO ACTIVITY
  • FIGURE 2 U.S. QD PATENTS ISSUED, 1986- DECEMBER 31, 2007 (CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1,620)
  • FIGURE 2 (CONTINUED)
  • FIGURE 3 COMPARISON OF U.S. QD PATENTS ISSUED AND PENDING, 2001- 2007 (NUMBER OF U.S. PATENTS)
  • FIGURE 3 (CONTINUED)
• USPTO ACTIVITY CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION SECTOR
  • FIGURE 4 BREAKDOWN (%) FOR THE MAIN INDUSTRY/ APPLICATION SECTORS EMERGING FROM QD-PATENTS ISSUED, 2005- 2007 (%)
  • TABLE 11 INDUSTRIAL SECTORS AND EXEMPLARY APPLICATIONS EMERGING FROM ISSUED U.S. QD-PATENTS, 2005- 2007
  • FIGURE 5 BREAKDOWN (%) FOR THE MAIN INDUSTRY/ APPLICATION SECTORS EMERGING FROM QD-PATENTS ISSUED, 1998- 2004 (%)
  • FIGURE 5 (CONTINUED)
  • FIGURE 6 U.S. VERSUS FOREIGN QD PATENTS ISSUED, CLASSIFIED BY APPLICATION SECTOR, 2005- 2007 (CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 857)
• USPTO ACTIVITY: ASIAN, EUROPEAN, AND OTHER COUNTRIES
  • FIGURE 7 U.S. QD PATENTS ISSUED ASSIGNED TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 2005- 2007 (TOTAL 234)
  • FIGURE 8 U.S. QD PATENTS ISSUED ASSIGNED TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, FOR THE PERIOD 1998- AUGUST 31, 2004 (TOTAL 194)
  • FIGURE 9 U.S. QD PATENT APPLICATIONS ASSIGNED TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 2005- 2007 (TOTAL 249)
• USPTO ACTIVITY: SMALL U.S. COMPANIES
  • TABLE 12 LEADING U.S. SMALL BUSINESSES GRANTED MUTIPLE PATENTS FOR QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 12 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 13 OTHER U.S. SMALL BUSINESSES GRANTED TWO OR LESS PATENTS FOR QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 13 (CONTINUED)
• USPTO ACTIVITY: LARGE U.S. COMPANIES
  • TABLE 14 LEADING U.S. LARGE BUSINESSES GRANTED MUTIPLE PATENTS IN QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
• USPTO ACTIVITY: U.S. ACADEMIC, GOVERNMENT, OTHER INSTITUTIONS
  • TABLE 15 U.S. ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS GRANTED MULTIPLE PATENTS IN QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 15 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 16 U.S. GOVERNMENT & OTHER INSTITUTIONS GRANTED MULTIPLE PATENTS IN QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
• USPTO ACTIVITY: ACCORDING TO FOREIGN OWNERSHIP
• Asia
  • TABLE 17 JAPANESE ORGANIZATIONS GRANTED MULTIPLE PATENTS IN QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 18 LEADING ORGANIZATIONS IN OTHER ASIAN COUNTRIES GRANTED PATENTS IN QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
• European and Other Countries
  • TABLE 19 LEADING ORGANIZATIONS IN EUROPE AND OTHER COUNTRIES GRANTED PATENTS IN QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
• EUROPEAN AND WORLDWIDE INTERNATIONAL PATENT OFFICES
  • FIGURE 10 WORLDWIDE DATABASE QD PATENTS FILED ACCORDING TO COUNTRY BETWEEN EARLY 2005- MARCH 11, 2008
  • TABLE 20 WORLDWIDE QD PATENTS FOR LEADING COUNTRIES COMPILED ACCORDING TO FOREIGN PATENT OFFICE: 2005- MARCH 11, 2008
• ASIAN PATENT ACTIVITY BY INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION SECTOR
  • FIGURE 11 QD FOREIGN PATENT ACTIVITY FOR LEADING ASIAN COUNTRIES CLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION SECTOR
  • FIGURE 11 (CONTINUED)
• LEADING ORGANIZATIONS BY COUNTRY
• Asian Countries
  • TABLE 21 LEADING CHINESE ORGANIZATIONS GRANTED MULTIPLE DOMESTIC PATENTS FOR QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 22 LEADING JAPANESE ORGANIZATIONS GRANTED MULTIPLE DOMESTIC PATENTS FOR QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 22 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 23 LEADING KOREAN ORGANIZATIONS GRANTED MULTIPLE DOMESTIC PATENTS FOR QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 23 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 24 LEADING TAWAINESE ORGANIZATIONS GRANTED MULTIPLE DOMESTIC PATENTS FOR QD-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
• Other Countries
  • TABLE 25 LEADING ORGANIZATIONS FROM OTHER CONTRIES WITH QD-PATENTS FILED WITH FOREIGN PATENT OFFICES, 2005- 2007
• FUNDING
  • TABLE 26 MAJOR U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FUNDING QD-BASED RESEARCH
• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGY (NIST)
• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF) *

Chapter-5: MARKETS BY APPLICATION

• TABLE 27 COMMERCIALLY PROMISING SECTORS WITH FIRST-GENERATION POSSIBILITIES FOR QD-BASED PRODUCTS
• BIOTECHNOLOGY
• BIOLABEL SYNTHESIS
  • TABLE 28 ADVANTAGES OF QUANTUM DOTS AS BIOLOGICAL LABELS
  • TABLE 29 U.S. PATENTS ISSUED AND FILED ON QD BIOLABEL SYNTHESIS, 2001- 2003
  • TABLE 29 (CONTINUED)
• QD-TAGGED MICROBEADS
• LIVE CELL IMAGING
• Live Cell Imaging (Continued)
• Live Cell Imaging (Continued)
• Live Cell Imaging (Continued)
• MOLECULAR SPECIES DIAGNOSIS/DETECTION
  • TABLE 30 U.S. PATENTS ISSUED AND FILED ON QD BIOTECHNOLOGY- MOLECULAR SPECIES DIAGNOSIS/DETECTION, 2001- 2003
• ANALYTICAL/INSTRUMENTS METHODS
  • TABLE 31 U.S. PATENTS ISSUED ON QD BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS ON ANALYTICAL/INSTRUMENT METHODS, 2001- 2003
• SENSOR AND MICROARRAY APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 32 U.S. PATENTS ISSUED ON QD-BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS ON SENSOR AND MICRO-ARRAY APPLICATIONS, 2001- 2003
• MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 33 LEADING COMPANIES ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN QD-BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS ACCORDING TO U.S. PATENTS ISSUED, 2005- 2008
  • TABLE 33 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 34 THE MOST ACTIVE UNIVERSITIES INVOLVED IN QD-BIOTECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS ACCORDING TO U.S. PATENTS ISSUED, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 34 (CONTINUED)
• COMPANY PROFILES- BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
  • Affymetrix, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
  • Amnis Corporation, (Seattle, WA)
  • Applera Corporation (Foster City, CA)
  • Biocrystal Ltd. (Westerville, OH)
  • Clinical Micro Sensors, Inc./ Osmetech Molecular Diagnostics (Pasadena, CA)
  • Clontech Laboratories, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
  • Genoptix, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
  • Helicos BioSciences Corporation (Cambridge, MA)
  • Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
  • Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
  • Integrated Raman Bioanalyzer System
  • MEMS-Based Hydrodynamic Focusing
  • LI-COR Incorporated (Lincoln, NE)
  • Luminex Corporation (Austin, TX)
  • Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, IL)
  • U.S. Genomics, Inc. (Woburn, MA)
• BIOMEDICINE
• DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 35 QD MEDICAL APPLICATIONS DERIVED FROM U.S. PATENTS, 2000- 2004
  • TABLE 35 (CONTINUED)
• MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 36 QD MEDICAL APPLICATIONS DERIVED FROM U.S. PATENTS: 2005- 2007
  • CANCER THERAPY AND DIAGNOSTICS
  • Cancer Therapy and Diagnostics (Continued)
  • DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS
  • DISEASE SCREENING
  • IMPLANTABLE DEVICES
  • Motorola Inc.
  • QinetiQ Plc
  • SURGICAL AIDS
  • Spectros Corporation
  • Teledyne Lighting
  • Advanced Magnetics, Inc.
• ELECTRONICS
  • TABLE 37 NOVEL QD-BASED DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS IN ELECTRONICS
  • TABLE 37 (CONTINUED)
• LIMITATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE FABRICATION
• Top-Down QD Electronic Device Assembly
  • TABLE 38 U.S. PATENT-BASED DEVELOPMENTS IN QD INTEGRATION USING CONVENTIONAL MICROELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, 1999- 2004
  • TABLE 38 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 39 U.S. PATENT-BASED DEVELOPMENTS IN QD INTEGRATION USING CONVENTIONAL MICROELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
• Bottom-Up QD Electronic Device Assembly- Molecular Electronics
  • TABLE 40 U.S. PATENT-BASED DEVELOPMENTS IN QD INTEGRATION INTO UNCONVENTIONAL NANOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY
  • TABLE 40 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 41 U.S. PATENT-BASED DEVELOPMENTS IN QD INTEGRATION USING UNCONVENTIONAL MICROELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY, 2005- 2007
• QUANTUM COMPUTERS AND CRYPTOGRAPHY
• Quantum Computing and Information Processing
• Quantum Cryptography
• PATENT ACTIVITY
  • TABLE 42 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN QUANTUM COMPUTERS: 1999- 2004
  • TABLE 43 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN QUANTUM COMPUTERS AND QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY, 2005- 2007
• Credence Systems Corporation (Milpitas, CA)
• D-Wave Systems (Vancouver, Canada)
• MagiQ Technologies, Inc. (New York, NY)
• Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Cambridge Research Laboratory, U.K.
• STORAGE/MEMORY DEVICES
  • TABLE 44 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN MEMORY DEVICES, 1999- 2004
  • TABLE 45 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN MEMORY DEVICES, 2005- 2007
• OPTOELECTRONICS
• LEDS
• DISPLAYS
  • TABLE 46 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES, 2005- APRIL 2008
• Boeing Company (Chicago, IL)
• E Ink Corporation (Waltham, MA)
• Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY)
• Goldeneye, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• Microvision, Inc. (Redmond, WA)
• QD Vision, Inc. (Watertown, MA)
  • TABLE 47 BENEFITS OF QD-LEDS OVER OTHER DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES
• Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. (Suhan, Korea)
• Solexant Corporation (San Jose, CA)
• Superimaging, Inc. (Freemont, CA)
• FLEXIBLE DISPLAY INDUSTRY
  • TABLE 48 PROFILE OF SOME EMERGING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY MARKET PLAYERS
  • TABLE 48 (CONTINUED)
• COMPLEMENTARY FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY
• Ink-jet Printing
• Mist Deposition
• LASERS
  • TABLE 49 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN LASERS AND LASER DIODES AND RELATED DEVICES AMONG U.S. ORGANIZATIONS, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 50 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN LASER DIODES AND RELATED DEVICES AMONG FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS, 2005- 2007
• Finisar Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA)
• Innolume GmbH (Dortmund, Germany, and Santa Clara, CA)
  • TABLE 51 ADVANTAGES OF QD DIODE LASERS
• QD Laser, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)
• LEDS AND LIGHTING
  • TABLE 52 ROADMAP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SSL-LED TECHNOLOGY/LAMP TARGETS
  • TABLE 53 IMPORTANT PLAYERS IN GROWING WLED SSL INDUSTRY
  • TABLE 54 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN LEDS AND RELATED DEVICES AMONG U.S. ORGANIZATIONS, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 54 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 55 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN LEDS AND RELATED DEVICES AMONG FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS, 2005- 2007
  • TABLE 55 (CONTINUED)
• Avago Technologies Limited (Singapore)
• Evident Technologies, Inc. (Troy, NY)
• Group IV Semiconductor Inc. (Ottawa, Canada)
• Kopin Corporation (Waltham, MA)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM)
• 3M Company (St. Paul, MN)
• Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany)
• Philips Lumileds Lighting Company (San Jose, CA)
• Philips Lumileds Lighting Company (Continued)
• Innovalight, Inc (Santa Clara, CA)
• Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)
  • TABLE 56 PROPERTY COMPARISON OF COLLOIDAL QDS AND CONVENTIONAL LED PHOSPHORS
• Challenges Facing Solid-State LED Development
  • TABLE 57 COLLOIDAL QD-BASED SOLID-STATE WHITE LIGHTING: ENABLING FEATURES AND FUTURE TECHNICAL CHALLENGES
• OPTICAL COMPONENTS
• BACKGROUND
• PATENT ACTIVITY
  • TABLE 58 U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN OPTICAL COMPONENTS AND RELATED DEVICES: 1999- 2004
• MORE RECENT PATENT ACTIVITY
  • TABLE 59 RECENT U.S. PATENT-BASED QD DEVELOPMENTS IN OPTICAL COMPONENTS, 2005- 2008
• Trackdale Ltd. (U.K.)
• University of Toronto (Canada)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Lambda Instruments, Inc. (Blacksburg, VA)
• SECURITY
• RATIONALE FOR QDS AS AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
• QDs versus Organic Fluorescent Dyes
• Market Drivers
• Counterfeiting
• ORGANIZATIONS EXPLOITING QD-BASED SECURITY TECHNOLOGY
  • TABLE 60 KEY ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN SECURITY APPLICATIONS OF QDS OR COMPETITIVE MARKING MATERIALS
• MORE RECENT SECURITY APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENTS
  • TABLE 61 QD SECURITY APPLICATIONS DERIVED FROM U.S. PATENTS, 2005- 2008
• BioCrystal Ltd. (Westerville, OH)
• Center for Forensic Studies, Texas Technical University (Lubbock, TX)
• Digimarc Corporation (Beaverton, OR)
• Evident Technologies (Troy, NY)
• Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, NJ)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• Nanosolutions GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
• National Research Council (Ottawa, Canada)
• NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH)
• New Light Industries, Ltd. (Spokane, WA)
• Oxonica Inc/Nanoplex Technologies, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
• Quantum Dot Corporation (Hayward, CA)
• Spectra Systems Corporation (Providence, RI)
• Veritec Verification Technologies, Inc. (Essex, CT)
• BUSINESS PROGNOSIS OF THE SECURITY MARKET
  • TABLE 62 RECENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES FOCUSING ON NEW SECURITY DEVELOPMENTS
• Market Size
• Digital Security Printing
• DVDs
• Counterfeit Drugs
• SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
• CHEMICAL REACTION ENERGY CONVERSION
• SOLAR ENERGY
• Solar Energy (Continued)
• ORGANIC DYE-BASED SOLAR CELLS
  • TABLE 63 ADVANTAGES OF FLEXIBLE POLYMER-BASED OVER CONVENTIONAL RIGID SOLAR CELL DESIGNS
• ORGANIC QD-BASED SOLAR CELLS
  • TABLE 64 SOME ADVANTAGES OF COLLOIDAL QDS OVER ORGANIC DYES USED IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS
  • TABLE 65 MAJOR PLAYERS INVOLVED IN PATENTING AND DEVELOPMENT OF QD SOLAR CELLS
• Agfa-Gevaert (Belgium)
• Harvard University
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Lund University, Sweden
• Nanosys Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• University of California (Santa Barbara, CA)
• University of Idaho
• University of Rochester
• MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
  • TABLE 66 MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BY MAJOR PLAYERS INVOLVED IN QD SOLAR CELLS AND COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES, 2005- 2008
  • TABLE 66 (CONTINUED)
• THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY CONVERSION
  • TABLE 67 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN QD ENHANCEMENTS USED IN THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY (TE) CONVERSION, 2005- 2008 170

Chapter-6: INDUSTRY STRUCTURE AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

• QUANTUM DOT PRODUCERS
• WET CHEMICAL-BASED SYNTHESIS
• Open Market
  • TABLE 68 CURRENT COMMERCIAL OPEN MARKET COLLOIDAL-QD PRODUCERS
• American Elements (Los Angeles, CA)
• Bayer Technology Services GmbH (Leverkusen, Germany)
• Bayer Technology Services GmbH (Leverkusen, Germany)
• Crystalplex Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Evident Technologies (Troy, NY)
  • TABLE 69 EVIDENT TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
  • TABLE 70 RECENT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS AT EVIDENT TECHNOLOGIES
  • TABLE 70 (CONTINUED)
• Hanwha Chemical Corporation (Seoul, South Korea)
• Invitrogen Corporation (Carlsbad, CA)
• Quantum Dor Corporation
• BioCrystal/BioPixels Limited
• Nanoco Technologies, Ltd. (Manchester, U.K.)
• Nanoco Technologies, Ltd. (Manchester, U.K.) (Continued)
• Nanosquare Company Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea)
• NN-Labs Inc, Fayetteville, AR
• NN-Labs Inc, Fayetteville, AR (Continued)
• Northern Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Toronto, Canada)
• Ocean NanoTech LLC (Fayetteville, AR)
• Oxonica Limited (U.K.)
• PlasmaChem GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
• Selah Technologies (Pendleton, SC)
• Voxtel Inc. (Beaverton, OR)
• Closed Market
  • TABLE 71 COMPANIES EXPLORING OTHER PRODUCT APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT OF COLLOIDAL-QDS OR SIMILAR SYSTEMS
• Nanosphere Inc. (Northbrook, IL)
• Nanosphere Inc. (Northbrook, IL) (Continued)
• Nanosys Inc. (Palo Alto, CA, and Medford, MA)
• Nanosys Inc. (Continued)
  • TABLE 72 NANOSYS LATEST BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS
  • TABLE 72 (CONTINUED)
• SOLID STATE-BASED SYNTHESIS
  • TABLE 73 U.S. COMPANIES LEADING IN COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOLID-STATE- BASED SYNTHESIS OF QUANTUM DOTS
• FOREIGN COMPETITION IN QUANTUM DOTS
• WET CHEMICAL-BASED SYNTHESIS
• SOLID-STATE- BASED SYNTHESIS
  • TABLE 74 ASIAN COMPANIES CURRENTLY LEADING IN COMMERCIALLY DEVELOPING SOLID-STATE- BASED SYNTHESIZED QDS
  • TABLE 74 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 75 EUROPEAN AND OTHER FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN COMMERCIALLY DEVELOPING SOLID-STATE- BASED SYNTHESIZED QDS
• DRIVING FORCES IMPACTING QD INDUSTRY
• SPECIALTY AND POTENTIAL FOR COMMODITY QD APPLICATIONS
• SOLAR ENERGY
• IMPORTANT FACTORS NURTURING GROWTH
• DEVICE FABRICATION
• TOP-DOWN IN SITU LITHOGRAPHIC FABRICATION
• BOTTOM-UP ASSEMBLY
• Solid State Synthesis
• Wet Colloid Synthesis
• BUILDING OF QUANTUM DOT DEVICES
  • TABLE 76 PROCESS SYNTHESIS AND DEVICE FABRICATION PARADIGMS FOR COLLOIDAL-QDS
• CHALLENGES AND ISSUES FACING THE QD INDUSTRY
  • TABLE 77 MAJOR ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FACING THE COLLOID QD INDUSTRY
• NANOTOXICITY
• RoHS Directive
• PRODUCTION SCALE-UP OF QDS
• SURFACE CHEMICAL PASSIVATION
• TRADE PRACTICES/REGULATORY ISSUES AND INFORMATION
• REGULATORY ISSUES
• Toxicity Studies
• Environmental Studies
• GREEN CHEMISTRY
• EVOLUTIONARY STAGE OF INDUSTRY
• COLLOIDAL QDS
• Colloidal QDs versus Epitaxial QDs
• MARKET ANALYSIS
• QD COMMERCIAL PRODUCERS
• LEADING COLLOIDAL QD PRODUCERS
  • TABLE 78 LEADING U.S. COLLOIDAL QD PRODUCERS: CURRENT PRODUCT PORTFOLIO AND COMMERCIAL MARKET APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 78 (CONTINUED)
  • TABLE 79 FOREIGN COLLOIDAL QD PRODUCERS: CURRENT PRODUCT PORTFOLIO AND COMMERCIAL MARKET APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 79 (CONTINUED)
• COMPARISON WITH SOLID-STATE SYNTHESIZED QDS
• MAJOR PRODUCTION CHALLENGES
  • TABLE 80 MAJOR CHALLENGES FACING COMMERCIAL QD PRODUCERS
  • TABLE 81 MARKET FORECASTS FOR COLLOIDAL SC QDS: RATIONALE FOR SELECTING PROMISING SECTORS
  • TABLE 81 (CONTINUED)
• MARKET PROSPECTS FOR QDS IN BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
• POTENTIAL MARKET SIZE
• EVOLUTION OF NC MATERIALS IN BIOLOGICAL DETECTION
• MORE RECENT STUDIES
• DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTS: DEVELOPMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
• PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT
  • TABLE 82 GOVERNMENT SPONSORSHIPS AND COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS AIDING DEVELOPMENT OF NEW BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF QDS
  • TABLE 82 (CONTINUED)
• EMERGING MARKETS FOR SMALL NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS
• Standalone Bioconjugate-QD Materials Market
  • TABLE 83 PREDICTED REVENUE GROWTH IN STANDALONE QDS (BIOCONJUGATE AND OTHER) TARGETED FOR ALL IMPENDING MARKET APPLICATIONS, THROUGH 2013 ($ MILLIONS)
• Diagnostic Instrument/QD Integration Applications
• MARKET PROSPECTS FOR QDS IN MEMORY APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 84 SOME FUTURE NANOMATERIALS-BASED MEMORY ARCHITECTURES
  • TABLE 84 (CONTINUED)
• FLASH, THE MEMORY OF CHOICE
• Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, TX)
• Freescale Semiconductor Inc....Continued
• Other Near-Term Competitive Technologies
• Projected Growth in QD-Based Memory Market
• FIGURE 12 TOTAL WORLWIDE FLASH MEMORY GROWTH PROJECTION
  • TABLE 85 PROJECTED MARKET REVENUES GENERATED BY FREESCALE' S QD-BASED MEMORY PRODUCTS, THROUGH 2013 ($ MILLIONS)
• Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, CA)
• IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY)
• Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, ID)
• Nanosys Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
• Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Cambridge (U.K.)
• Other Foreign Competition
• MARKET PROSPECTS FOR QDS IN OPTOELECTRONICS
• RIGID LED WHITE LIGHTING
• TABLE 86 MAJOR ISSUES CONFRONTING THE IMPENDING USE OF QDS IN SSL WLED TECHNOLOGY
• TABLE 86 (CONTINUED)
• North American Interests
• Foreign Interests
• Market Prediction
  • TABLE 87 PROJECTED RIGID AND FLEXIBLE LED LIGHTING REVENUES GENERATED BY QD-BASED PRODUCTS, THROUGH 2013 ($ MILLIONS)
• FLEXIBLE LEDS
• Market Prediction
• RIGID AND FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS
  • TABLE 88 MAJOR PERFORMANCE ISSUES CONFRONTING OLED DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY AND POTENTIAL ENHANCEMENTS PROVIDED BY QDS
• Rigid and Flexible Displays...(Continued)
  • TABLE 89 PROJECTED RIGID AND FLEXIBLE DISPLAY REVENUES GENERATED BY QD-BASED PRODUCTS, THROUGH 2013 ($ MILLIONS)
• MARKET PROSPECTS FOR QDS IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
• DOPED FIBER OPTICS
• LASERS
• Finisar Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA)
• Innolume GmbH (Dortmund, Germany, and Santa Clara, CA)
• QD Laser, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)
• OPTICAL COMPONENTS
• Evident Technologies, Inc. (Troy, NY)
• Trackdale Ltd. (Framingham, U.K.)
• QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY
• PROJECTED GROWTH FOR QDS IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
  • TABLE 90 PROJECTED OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS REVENUES GENERATED BY QD-BASED PRODUCTS, 2010- 2013 ($ MILLIONS)
• MARKET PROSPECTS FOR QDS IN SECURITY APPLICATIONS
  • TABLE 91 CLASSIFICATION OF COVERT QD SECURITY APPLICATIONS BY MARKET SECTOR
  • TABLE 91 (CONTINUED)
• MARKET PROSPECTS FOR QDS IN SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY
• INITIAL COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
• RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
• MAJOR ISSUES
  • TABLE 92 MAJOR ISSUES CONFRONTING THE IMPENDING USE OF COLLOIDAL QDS IN SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY
• MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
• Impending QD-Based Solar Products
• Cyrium Technologies, Inc. (Ottawa, Canada)
• Innovalight, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
• Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
• Competitive and Parallel Developments Impacting QD-Solar Cells
  • TABLE 93 MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS SHAPING COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS
  • TABLE 93 (CONTINUED)
• First-Generation- Bulk Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
• Second-Generation- Inorganic Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells
• Third-Generation- Organic Thin Film Solar Cells
• Third-Generation- Organic Thin Film Solar Cells (Continued)
• PROJECTED GROWTH IN QD-BASED SOLAR MARKET
  • FIGURE 13 PROJECTED WORLDWIDE GROWTH IN PV SOLAR SYSTEMS
  • TABLE 94 PROJECTED SOLAR CELL MARKET REVENUES GENERATED BY QD-BASED PRODUCTS, 2010- 2013 ($ MILLIONS)
• MARKET PROSPECTS FOR QDS IN OTHER PROMISING SECTORS
• FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS
• Flexible Electronics (Continued)

Chapter-7: APPENDIX

• ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
• UNITS
  • TABLE 95 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ACTIVE AWARDS RELATING TO QUANTUM DOT RESEARCH
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