Transparent Conductive Films for Flexible Electronics 2010-2020

Table of Contents

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

2. INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS (TCF)

3. APPLICATIONS AND REQUIRED PROPERTIES OF TCFS

• 3.1. Electromagnetic shielding and Electrostatic coating
• 3.2. Displays & Lighting
  • 3.2.1. LC Displays
  • 3.2.2. EL Lamps and Displays
  • 3.2.3. OLED Lighting and displays
  • 3.2.4. Touch Screen Displays
• 3.3. Photovoltaics
  • 3.3.1. Crystalline Silicon
  • 3.3.2. Thin film and Organic PV
• 3.4. Security Applications

4. MAIN CRITERIA OF TCFS

• 4.1.2. Transparency
• 4.1.3. Conductivity
• 4.1.4. Flexibility
• 4.1.5. Cost
• 4.1.6. Other parameters

5. MATERIALS USED FOR TCFS

• 5.1.1. Doped oxide metals
• 5.1.2. ITO Challenges: Cost and availability
• 5.1.3. Organic Conductors
• 5.1.4. Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene

6. MANUFACTURING OF TCFS

• 6.1. TCOs
  • 6.1.1. Vacuum processes
  • 6.1.2. Wet processes
  • 6.1.3. Patterning of TCO layers
  • 6.1.4. Recent developments: Printable ITO
• 6.2. Organic Materials
• 6.3. CNT and Graphene

7. COMPANIES

• 7.1. Agfa Orgacon
• 7.2. Cambrios Technologies Corp.
• 7.3. Canatu Ltd.
• 7.4. Cheil Industries
• 7.5. Chisso Corp.
• 7.6. Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd (DNP)
• 7.7. Dontech Inc.
• 7.8. Eikos - Production of Carbon Nanotube Invisicon Ink
• 7.9. Evaporated Coatings Inc.
• 7.10. Evonik
• 7.11. Fujifilm Ltd
• 7.12. Gunze Ltd
• 7.13. H.C. Starck Clevios
• 7.14. HelioSphera
• 7.15. Join Well Technology Company Ltd.
• 7.16. KPT Shanghai Keyan Phosphor Technology Co. Ltd.
• 7.17. LEE TAT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT LTD.
• 7.18. LG Chem
• 7.19. Mianyang Prochema Plastics Co., Ltd.
• 7.20. Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.
• 7.21. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
• 7.22. Nicanti
• 7.23. Nitto Denko
• 7.24. Oike & CO., Ltd.
• 7.25. Panipol Ltd
• 7.26. Regroupement quebecois sur les materiaux de pointe (RQMP)
• 7.27. Sheldahl
• 7.28. Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Inc.
• 7.29. Teijin Kasei America, Inc.
• 7.30. Top Nanosys
• 7.31. Toray
• 7.32. Toyobo
• 7.33. Unidym
• 7.34. University of Michigan
• 7.35. VisionTek Systems Ltd.

8. FORECASTS FOR TCF FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS 2010-2020

• 8.1. The potential significance of organic and printed inorganic electronics
• 8.2. Forecasts for flexible electronics 2010-2020
• 8.3. TCFs market size

9. REFERENCES

APPENDIX 1: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTANCY

TABLES

• 1.1. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020 US$ bn
• 4.1. TCF requirements for different applications
• 4.2. Table: Main criteria to assess for TCFs
• 4.3. Table: Comparison of TCF material of H.C. Starck and ITO films
• 8.1. Leading market drivers 2020
• 8.2. Market value (US$ billion) of flexible/conformal electronics 2010-2020
• 8.3. Total market value of flexible vs. rigid electronics 2010-2020 US$ billion
• 8.4. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020

FIGURES

• 1.1. Flexible OLED fabricated using IMREs high barrier substrate and encapsulation technique
• 1.2. Flexible Solar Cell developed by Fraunhofer IPMS
• 1.3. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020 US$ bn
• 2.1. Conductivity of several materials.
• 3.1. Structure of a TFT-LCD
• 3.2. PolyDisplay' s see through display
• 3.3. EL display for a car dashboard
• 3.4. Cross section of an EL display
• 3.5. Two types of OLED construction
• 3.6. Constructions of Inorganic PV cells
• 3.7. Materials investigated for Organic Photovoltaics
• 3.8. Flexible electronics
• 4.1. Relationship between resistance and transparency
• 4.2. Flex testing of ITO on foil
• 5.1. Cost of ITO and global ITO production
• 5.2. Global Indium Production in 2007
• 5.3. PEDOT:PSS conductivity development
• 5.4. Structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes
• 5.5. The chiral vector is represented by a pair of indices (n, m). T denotes the tube axis, and a1 and a2 are the unit vectors of graphene in real space.
• 6.1. Comparison of OLED performance. The top electrode made of printed ITO
• 7.1. Directly produced prepatterned films
• 7.2. CNT Ink Production Process
• 7.3. Target application areas of Eikos
• 7.4. Gunze' s flexible display, presented early 2009
• 7.5. H.C. Stark
• 7.6. The owners of Nicanti
• 7.7. Nicanti Printaf project
• 7.8. TCF from Nitto Denko
• 7.9. TCF solutions from Panipol
• 7.10. VisionTek Systems TCF materials
• 8.1. Leading market drivers 2020
• 8.2. Market value (US$ billion) of flexible/conformal electronics 2009-2020
• 8.3. Total market value of flexible vs. rigid electronics 2010-2020 US$ billion
• 8.4. TCO Layer Market Forecasts 2010-2020 US$ billion