Thin films have been around for many years, but have gotten a new lease on life as the result of current interest in nanotechnology, which promises a slew of new thin film materials. While thin films have a variety of applications, many of them have interesting electronic and magnetic properties, which seem to promise significant commercial opportunities in the electronics, aerospace, defense, semiconductor and several other industries. Uses of thin-films that are exciting considerable attention right now include applications "large area electronics," next-generation processors and memories, and in conductive coatings for aircraft, etc. These new developments offers considerable potential for firms in the specialty chemical, materials, electronics, defense, semiconductors and printing industries and should also be of interest to investors seeking to make money from this in important direction for new materials development.
This report is designed to quantify the opportunities, providing detailed forecasts of thin film electronics broken out by material type and application area. It will also provide a qualitative forecast of the deposition, printing and other production technologies required to create thin-film products and will review the latest R&D and the marketing strategies of firms already active in this sector.
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