Table of Contents
Executive Summary
- E.1 Emerging Applications for Silicon Inks and Nanocrystalline Silicon
- E.2 New Strategies and New Silicon
- E.3 The End of Moore' s Law: How Nanosilicon Can Help the Semiconductor
Industry Scale
- E.3.1 The End of Moore' s Law
- E.3.2 Nanocrystal Memories
- E.3.3 Optical Interconnects and Silicon Lasers
- E.3.4 Optical Networking and Optical Memories
- E.4 Electronics Markets Behaving Badly: Nanosilicon, Flexible Electronics
and Silicon Photonics
- E.4.1 The Graying of Personal Electronics
- E.4.2 Pervasive Computing and Flexible Large Area Electronics as Next
Wave
- E.4.3 The Future of Silicon-Based Flexible Electronics: RFID and
Backplanes
- E.4.4 Can Printed Silicon Provide a Third Road for TFTs?
- E.5 Nano-Silicon, Inks and Greentech
- E.5.1 Photovoltaics
- E.5.2 Lighting
- E.6 Summary of Eight-year Projections of Printed Silicon/Nanocrystalline
Silicon Electronics
Chapter One: Introduction
- 1.1 Background to this Report
- 1.1.1 Memories, Chips and Silicon
- 1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
- 1.3 Methodology and Information Sources for Report
- 1.4 Plan of this report
Chapter Two: Emerging Technology and Manufacturing Processes
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.1.1 A Very Short Digression on Quantum Dots
- 2.2 Manufacture of and with Silicon Nanocrystals
- 2.2.1 Plasma Approaches
- 2.2.2 Vapor Deposition
- 2.3 Silicon Inks
- 2.4 Substrates for Silicon Crystal Electronics and Photonics
- 2.4.1 Glass
- 2.4.2 Plastic
- 2.4.3 Paper and Board
- 2.4.4 Stainless Steel Foil
- 2.4.5 Stretchable Silicon: A New Kind of substrate
Chapter Three: Applications for Nanocrystalline and Printed Silicon
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Computer Memories
- 3.2.1 Evolution of Computer Memory Technology
- 3.2.2 Nanocrystalline Silicon Floating Gate Memory Technology
- 3.2.3 Silicon Nanocrystal Optical Memory
- 3.2.4 Freescale
- 3.2.5 Intel
- 3.2.6 Atmel
- 3.2.7 Samsung
- 3.2.8 Infineon
- 3.2.9 Competition for Nanocrystalline Silicon Memories
- 3.3 Thin-film Transistors
- 3.3.1 A Very Brief History of TFTs
- 3.3.2 Enter OTFTs
- 3.3.3 Can Printed Silicon Provide a Third Road for TFTs?
- 3.3.4 Printed Silicon in Display Backplanes
- 3.3.5 Printed Silicon in RFID
- 3.4 Photovoltaics
- 3.4.1 The Photovoltaics Market: A Brief Overview
- 3.4.2 Nanocrystalline Silicon in PV
- 3.4.3 Innovalight and Printed Silicon Photovoltaics
- 3.5 Lighting Systems
- 3.6 Silicon Photonics and Interconnection
- 3.6.1 The Interconnection Issue
- 3.6.2 Enter Silicon Photonics
- 3.6.3 Silicon Nanocrystals and Silicon Lasers
- 3.7 Future Products
Chapter Four: Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed and Nanocrystalline Silicon Markets
- 4.1 Scope and Philosophy of Forecasts
- 4.2 Forecasting Methodology
- 4.3 Nanocrystalline Floating Gate Memories
- 4.4 Printed Nanocrystalline Silicon TFTs: Backplanes, RFID and Other
Applications
- 4.4.1 Backplane Markets
- 4.4.2 RFID Markets
- 4.4.3 Other Markets
- 4.5 Printable Silicon PV
- 4.6 Silicon Photonics
- 4.7 Summary of Nanocrystalline/Printed Silicon Markets
- 4.8 Materials Markets for Printed and Nanocrystalline Electronics/Photonics
Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in this Report
About the Author
Tables
- Exhibit E-1: Summary of Market Opportunities for Nanocrystalline Silicon
and Silicon Inks
- Exhibit E-2: Applications Areas for Printed Inorganic Electronics: The
Semprius View
- Exhibit E-3: Printed/Nanocrystalline Silicon Electronics Markets ($
Millions)
- Exhibit 3-1: Key Characteristics of Nanomemory Technologies
- Exhibit 3-2: List of Materials Used for PV
- Exhibit 4-1: Nanocrystalline Memory Markets: 2008-2015 ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-2: Forecasts of Printed Silicon Backplanes Markets: 2008-2015
- Exhibit 4-3: Forecasts of Printed Silicon RFID Markets: 2008-2015
- Exhibit 4-4: Printed Silicon TFT Markets ($ Millions)
- Exhibit 4-5: Worldwide Production of Nanocrystalline/Printed Silicon
Thin-Film Photovoltaics
- Exhibit 4-6: Breakout of Nanocrystalline/Printed Silicon Thin-Film
Photovoltaics Revenue by Application ($ Million)
- Exhibit 4-7: Nanocrystalline/Printed Based Silicon Photonics Markets ($
Millions)
- Exhibit 4-8: Printed/Nanocrystalline Silicon Electronics Markets ($
Millions)
- Exhibit 4-9: Printed/Nanocrystalline Silicon Electronics Markets ($
Millions)
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