E-Paper Displays: Markets, Forecasts, Technologies 2010-2020

Table of Contents

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

2. INTRODUCTION

• 2.1. Scope
• 2.2. How e-paper displays are being applied
• 2.3. Flexible is a big market
• 2.4. Color, switching speed
• 2.5. E-Books
• 2.6. Cellphones, music players
• 2.7. Smart card displays
• 2.8. Electronic apparel
• 2.9. Posters/signage
  • 2.9.1. Clear Channel
• 2.10. Smart packaging/brand enhancement
  • 2.10.2. Duracell
  • 2.10.3. Cloetta bisquit/ACREO winking sign
  • 2.10.4. VTT Technology beer package game
• 2.11. E-paper displays have the largest market share for all flexible displays

3. ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS

• 3.1. E Ink
  • 3.1.1. Technology
  • 3.1.2. Products
• 3.2. Sipix: Microcup® electrophoretic display
  • 3.2.1. Technology
  • 3.2.2. AUO and Sipix
• 3.3. Bridgestone: Quick Response Liquid Powder Display™

4. ELECTROWETTING DISPLAYS

• 4.2. Liquavista
  • 4.2.1. Technology
• 4.3. ITRI, Taiwan and PVI, Taiwan
• 4.4. adt, Germany

5. OTHER BISTABLE DISPLAYS

• 5.1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• 5.2. Kent Displays
• 5.3. TRED
  • 5.3.1. Technology
• 5.4. Nemoptic
  • 5.4.1. Technology
• 5.5. Products

6. ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAYS

• 6.2. Ntera
• 6.3. Acreo
  • 6.3.1. Electrochemical displays on paper
• 6.4. Aveso
• 6.5. Ajjer

7. DISPLAY MAKERS

• 7.1. Prime View International (PVI)
  • 7.1.1. Technology
  • 7.1.2. Flexible e-paper displays using EPLaR
• 7.2. Plastic Logic
• 7.3. LG
• 7.4. i-Rex
• 7.5. Samsung
• 7.6. Seiko Epson
• 7.7. NEC
• 7.8. Polymer Vision
  • 7.8.2. Technology
  • 7.8.3. What went wrong

8. OTHER RELATED FLEXIBLE DISPLAY COMPONENTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

• 8.1. Electrofluidic Displays: Gamma-Dynamics
• 8.2. Thermochromic displays
• 8.3. Optical shutter film: Citala, USA
• 8.4. Adhesives, Delo Germany

9. E-READERS

• 9.1. Content availability
• 9.2. Amazon Kindle and Kindle 2
  • 9.2.2. Amazon Kindle DX
  • 9.2.3. FUJITSU FLEPia
• 9.3. Iliad & Digital Reader
• 9.4. SONY Readers
• 9.5. Brother Industries, Japan
• 9.6. TXTR
• 9.7. Hanvon

10. FORECASTS

• 10.1. Forecasts by technology
  • 10.1.1. Forecasts for color versus non color 2009-2020
  • 10.1.2. Electrophoretic displays market forecasts 2009-2020
  • 10.1.3. Electrochromic displays market forecasts 2009-2020
  • 10.1.4. Forecasts by application
• 10.2. Costing

11. APPENDIX 1: LIST OF E READERS, PAST AND PRESENT

TABLES

• 1.1. Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020
• 1.2. Market forecasts by application, 2009-2020
• 2.1. Main factors driving the rapid growth of electronic smart packaging
• 10.1. Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020
• 10.2. Market Forecasts for electronic paper and the market share for color electronic paper, 2009-2020
• 10.3. Electrophoretic displays market forecasts 2009-2020
• 10.4. Electrochromic displays market forecasts 2009-2020
• 10.5. Market forecasts by application, 2009-2020

FIGURES

• 1.1. Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020
• 1.2. Market forecasts by application, 2009-2019
• 2.1. Printed Electronics Applications
• 2.2. Flexible devices offer advantages in terms of consumer satisfaction
• 2.3. Samsung Alias™ 2
• 2.4. Reprogrammable electrophoretic decoration on Hitachi mobile phones only needs power when being changed
• 2.5. T-equaliser animated t-shirt
• 2.6. An example of the display on a billboard picture in use in London
• 2.7. Duracell batteries/Avery Dennison tester
• 2.8. Cloetta
• 2.9. VTT Technology beer package game
• 3.1. Electronic ink microcapsules
• 3.2. EPD pixel appearance
• 3.3. Retail Shelf Edge Labels from UPM
• 3.4. Secondary display on a cell phone
• 3.5. Samsung Alias™ 2
• 3.6. SEIKO E-Ink watch
• 3.7. Lexar portable USB flash drive
• 3.8. World' s first display on a magazine cover
• 3.9. Microcup® Structure
• 3.10. Sipix Roll-to-Roll micro embossing process
• 3.11. Embosser mold and embossed microcups
• 3.12. Structure of Sipix e-paper
• 3.13. Electrophoretic display on a commercially sold financial card
• 3.14. SD card from A Data with a Sipix display
• 3.15. Sipix Clock
• 3.16. Schematic of the features of Electronic Liquid Powder™
• 3.17. Bridgestone e-paper price tag
• 3.18. Bridgestone fully bendable electronic paper
• 3.19. Relationship between radius of curvature and reflectivity in the states of black and white in flexible QR-ELP™
• 3.20. Roll to roll processing steps for Bridgestone' s e-paper display
• 3.21. Flexible Full Color QR-LPD
• 4.1. Example of a droplet contracting and relaxing
• 4.2. Water droplets on hydrophobic surface (a) without and (b) with voltage applied
• 4.3. Electrowetting display principle
• 4.4. Comparison of power consumption for a variety of video displays
• 4.5. The concept of the "future of electronic paper" according to Liquavista
• 4.6. Excellent viewing angles in TFT backplanes and backlights
• 4.7. Flow chart of the manufacture process
• 4.8. adt electrowetting displays
• 4.9. EnOcean wireless switch
• 5.1. Color LCD by photo alignment
• 5.2. Color printable flexible LCD
• 5.3. KENT Displays' Reflex™ LCD
• 5.4. TRED' s EMD² technology
• 5.5. Principle of operation for Nemoptic' s BiNem® technology
• 5.6. A4 e-paper display
• 6.1. Electrochromic display on a Valentine' s card sold by Marks and Spencer in the UK in 2004 and electrochromic display with drive circuits in a laminate for smart cards..
• 6.2. Ntera Display
• 6.3. The dollhouse. When energy is added to the system the color of the wallpaper changes and a picture appears on the wall
• 6.4. Two state electrolytic display on paper
• 6.5. Seven segment display printed with bi-stable inks
• 6.6. Aveso electrochromic display
• 7.1. Glass e-book backplane
• 7.2. Field shielded pixels
• 7.3. TFT design
• 7.4. Glass e-Book module making
• 7.5. THE EPLaR process
• 7.6. TFT DC stability
• 7.7. Mobilities on glass, EPLaR before release & EPLaR after release
• 7.8. 9.7" and 6" flexible e-paper displays by PVI
• 7.9. Photograph of a 9.7" EPLaR display
• 7.10. The Plastic Logic e-reader
• 7.11. A4 size Flexible Color e-paper
• 7.12. Cross section of LG' s e-paper display
• 7.13. Seiko Epson e-reader
• 7.14. A3 and A4 e-paper displays
• 7.15. The Readius® by Polymer Vision
• 7.16. A Polymer Vision display
• 7.17. Display Processing Steps
• 8.1. Comparison of electrophoretic/electrofluidic display performance in color and grayscale
• 8.2. Duracell battery tester
• 8.3. Interactive game on a beer package by VTT Technologies in Finland
• 8.4. Edge encapsulation of an electrophoretic display with adhesive (blue). The DELO adhesive can be cured through the UV-blocked barrier layer (glass, PET, PEN, etc.) by means of visible light.
• 8.5. Selection of different development products
• 8.6. Example for the flexibility of a cured adhesive film with a thickness of 150μm (no substrate, just adhesive).
• 9.1. Kindle and Kindle 2
• 9.2. Kindle DX
• 9.3. Effect of 16 level grayscale and smoothing algorithm on text display
• 9.4. The Fujitsu FLEPia
• 9.5. Digital Reader and Iliad by iRex Technologies
• 9.6. The device uses an ink display and incorporates a touch screen
• 9.7. The SONY LIBRIe
• 9.8. Brother Industries large area e-reader
• 9.9. The txtr reader is based on E-Ink technology
• 9.10. Hanvon Technology claims the world' s first 5" Electronic Book series,
• 10.1. Market forecasts by technology, 2009-2020
• 10.2. Market Forecasts for electronic paper and the market share for full color electronic paper, 2009-2020
• 10.3. Market forecasts by application, 2009-2020
• 10.4. Component cost breakdown for the Amazon Kindle 2