Opportunities in Materials for Printable Electronics: 2007 & Beyond

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

• E.1 Introduction
• E.2 Summary of opportunities in PE materials
  • E.2.1 Where the volume opportunities are
  • E.2.2 Niche opportunities
  • E.2.3 Are PE materials for the VC?
  • E.2.4 Partnership possibilities
  • E.2.5 Establishing price points for PE Materials
• E.3 PE materials opportunities by supplier sector
  • E.3.1 Specialty chemical and materials firms
  • E.3.2 Applications developers and the printing industry
  • E.3.3 Printing equipment industry
• E.4 Summary of eight-year market forecasts

Chapter One: Introduction

• 1.1 Background to this report
• 1.2 Scope and objectives of this report
• 1.3 Methodology of this report
  • 1.3.1 Information sources used
• 1.4 Plan of this report

Chapter Two: Markets for Inks

• 2.1 Ink requirements by application
  • 2.1.1 Display frontplanes: OLEDs and e-paper
  • 2.1.2 Backplanes
  • 2.1.3 RFIDs
  • 2.1.4 Photovoltaics
  • 2.1.5 Sensors, smart packaging and biomedical devices
  • 2.1.6 Disposable electronics
  • 2.1.7 Other applications
• 2.2 Markets for established inks
  • 2.2.1 Silver inks
  • 2.2.2 Organic inks
• 2.3 Markets for novel inks
  • 2.3.1 Gold, nickel and copper inks
  • 2.3.2 Silicon inks
  • 2.3.3 Printable ITO
  • 2.3.4 Small molecules and other novel organic materials
  • 2.3.5 Nanomaterials
• 2.4 Potential for user friendly inks

Chapter Three: Markets for Substrates

• 3.1 Conventional substrate materials
  • 3.1.1 Glass
  • 3.1.2 Plastic
  • 3.1.3 Foil
• 3.2 Substrate requirements by application
  • 3.2.1 Displays: flexible and otherwise
  • 3.2.3 RFIDs and smart packing: printing on board and paper
  • 3.2.4 Photovoltaics: printing on building materials
  • 3.2.5 Smart textiles: printing on fabrics
  • 3.2.6 Substrates for disposable electronics
• 3.3 Impact of specific printing technologies on substrate requirements

Chapter Four: Eight-Year Forecasts

• 4.1 Forecasting methodology
• 4.2 Materials covered in forecast
• 4.3 Forecasting assumptions and Analysis by Sector
• 4.4 Forecast of Markets for Organic Inks by application sector
• 4.5 Forecast of Markets for Metallic Electronic Inks by application sector
• 4.6 Forecast of Markets for Inorganic Semiconductor and Other Inks by application sector
• 4.7 Forecast of Markets for Substrates by material and application sector