Organic Harvest: Opportunities in Organic Electronic Materials, 2007-2015

Table of Contents

Executive Summary:

• E.1 Summary of opportunities in the organic electronics materials space
  • E.1.1 Opportunities for materials suppliers
  • E.1.2 How new development in organic electronics materials is enabling new applications
• E.2 Recent research and developments
• E.3 Firms to watch
  • E.3.1 Strategic investments
• E.4 Summary of eight-year projections of organic electronics materials

Chapter One: Introduction

• 1.1 Background to this report
• 1.2 Goals and scope of this report
• 1.3 Methodology of this report
• 1.4 Plan of this report

Chapter Two: Evolution of Materials for Organic Electronics

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Important performance criteria for organic electronics materials
• 2.3 Types of organic materials used in organic electronics
  • 2.3.1 Polymers
  • 2.3.2 Small molecules
  • 2.3.3 Oligomers
  • 2.3.4 Dendrimers
  • 2.3.5 Biological materials
  • 2.3.6 Hybrid organic/inorganic materials
• 2.4 Conductive and semiconducting materials
  • 2.4.1 Commonly used materials
  • 2.4.2 Interesting research directions
• 2.5 Dielectric materials
• 2.6 Light emitting materials
  • 2.6.1 Interesting research directions
• 2.7 Photovoltaic materials
  • 2.7.1 Pure organic materials
  • 2.7.2 Hybrid materials
• 2.8 Electrochromic and e-paper materials
• 2.9 Encapsulation, barrier materials and flexibility
• 2.10 Substrates
• 2.11 Key challenges for organic electronics materials
  • 2.11.1 Depreciated silicon fabs
  • 2.11.2 Inorganic thin film and printed electronics
• 2.12 Review of main points in this chapter

Chapter Three: Evolution of Manufacturing with Organic Electronic Materials

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Evaporation techniques
  • 3.2.1 Trends in evaporation techniques for organic electronics materials
• 3.3 Printing organic materials
  • 3.3.1 Organic inks
  • 3.3.2 Perspectives on organic inks
• 3.4 Spin coating
• 3.5 Thermal transfer and laser imaging
• 3.6 Review of main points in this chapter

Chapter Four: Impact on Organic Electronics Devices

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 How new materials can change the prospects for OTFTs
  • 4.2.1 Mobility and switching speeds
• 4.3 Materials for organic memories
• 4.4 Expected materials-enabled improvements in organic photovoltaics
• 4.5 Expected materials enabled improvements for OLEDs
  • 4.5.1 Displays
  • 4.5.2 Lighting
• 4.6 Materials-related aspects of disposable electronics
• 4.7 Other applications-related impacts of organic electronics materials trends
• 4.8 Review of main points in this chapter

Chapter Five: Profiles

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Agfa-Gevaert
  • 5.2.1 Orgacon Products
  • 5.2.2 Customer Relationships
  • 5.2.3 New Product and Applications Directions
• 5.3 BASF
  • 5.3.1 Sepolid and Interest in CMOS
  • 5.3.2 Cooperation with Bosch on Organic PV
  • 5.3.3 OLEDs and the Singapore and German Research Centers
• 5.4 Ciba Specialty Chemicals
  • 5.4.1 OLED Materials
  • 5.4.2 Other Organic Electronics Materials Activities
• 5.5 Degussa/Evonik
  • 5.5.1 Approach to Organic CMOS
  • 5.5.2 Approach to OTFT Dielectrics
• 5.6 DuPont
  • 5.6.1 OLED Materials
  • 5.6.2 Relationship with Konarka
• 5.7 DuPont Teijin Films
• 5.8 GE Global Research
  • 5.8.1 Projects with USDC
  • 5.8.2 Joint Agreement with Tokki
• 5.9 H C Starck
• 5.10 Merck/EMD
  • 5.10.1 OLED Materials: livilux
  • 5.10.2 Organic Semiconductor Materials and Related Materials: lisicon, isitron and isitag
• 5.11 Mitsui Chemicals
• 5.12 Novaled
  • 5.12.1 Alliances with Other Firms
  • 5.12.2 Substrates and Encapsulation Efforts
• 5.13 OLED-T
  • 5.13.1 E255a, A New Green Emitter
  • 5.13.2 Super K Contrast Enhancement Layer
  • 5.13.3 EI-101 A New Electron Injector
  • 5.13.4 E746 A New Host Material
  • 5.13.5 Materials for Flexible OLED Materials
  • 5.13.6 Backlighting Project
• 5.14 Panipol
  • 5.14.1 Panipol and an EU Conductive Polymer Project
• 5.15 Plextronics
  • 5.15.1 Solvay and Applied Materials Investment
  • 5.15.2 Current and Future Products
  • 5.15.3 HIL Materials and Work with USDC and Northwestern
  • 5.15.4 Cleantech Orientation
  • 5.15.5 Flexible Electronics for the Army
  • 5.15.6 Conductive Polymers for Touch Technology
• 5.16 Polyera
  • 5.16.1 Research at Northwestern University
  • 5.16.2 Materials Platforms
  • 5.16.3 Alliance with BASF
• 5.17 Rieke Metals
  • 5.17.1 Joint Development and Licensing Arrangement with BASF
• 5.18 Sumitomo (Sumation)
  • 5.18.1 Sumation
• 5.20 Vitex Systems
  • 5.20.1 Licensing and Other Relationships
• 5.21 Xerox
  • 5.21.1 Xerox Research Centre of Canada

Chapter Six: Eight-Year Forecasts

• 6.1 Forecasting methodology
• 6.2 Pricing trends for organic electronics materials
• 6.3 Forecasts of organic electronics materials by type of material
• 6.4 Forecast of organic electronics materials by application
• 6.5 Forecast of organic electronics materials by manufacturing process used.