Abstract
This report analyzes and forecasts all the applications in which printable
electronics (PE) is being used or is likely to be used in the next eight
years. It is based on NanoMarkets ongoing primary and secondary research in
this rapidly growing area and will be essential reading to materials and
equipment firms, as well as technology developers and investors considering
their future in this rapidly emerging sector.
Printed Electronics is attracting serious and growing attention from VCs and
leading firms in the materials, specialty chem., semiconductor, consumer
electronics and other sectors. New firms are springing up. Substantial
investments are being made by both strategic investors and VCs. Factories are
being built. And the first products are appearing.
NanoMarkets has been analyzing and forecasting the PE sector since the
sector' s birth. We firmly believe that within the next couple of years PE will
become an industry addressing huge applications markets with sophisticated
products, much as the semiconductor industry does now. However, we have also
concluded that the opportunities in this sector will vary considerably from
application to application.
Within each application, we see the most valuable opportunities arising in
different parts of the supply chain. For some applications the best
opportunities lie in materials. In others it' s the basic devices; TFTs,
memories, OLEDs. In yet others, the money, we believe, will be made at the
applications level; in specific RFID, display, or photovoltaic products for
example.
This report tracks all the applications to which printed electronics is being
applied and shows where the opportunities lie. It also shows how opportunities
in PE are likely to shift over time as improved manufacturing equipment and
materials become available. Some firms, long committed to printing as a
manufacturing technology, have found current functional printing technology
hard to scale up to full production. How and when will that change? This is
just one of the many questions that this report answers.
Other questions that this report tackles: What will be the impact on PE
applications of the new inorganic conductive inks beginning to make it to the
market? What are the likely timetables in each of the applications areas
considered for products to shift to the more sophisticated and useful? And how
are business models in each application likely to change over time?
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