Abstract
The Printable electronics industry has seen several high profile manufacturing
related announcements in the past few months. As these fabs come online it
opens up new possibilities for this emerging market but also new questions
since the PE business is now in a position to engage in supply side
forecasting and analysis for several layers of the value chain. The answers to
these questions are important to materials firms planning their ink and
substrate products, equipment manufacturers assessing their opportunities in
the PE space, device manufacturers considering which products to introduce and
to investors considering the viability of the PE business. It also should go
without saying that large semi manufacturers will also be impacted by the
findings in this report.
This new report from NanoMarkets will provide a detailed capacity forecast for
PE products broken out by applications and printing technology. The capacity
forecast will include not only the new breed of PE technology developers such
as NanoIdent, Nanosolar, OrganicID, Plastic Logic, PolyIC and Polymer Vision
but also the growing number of established printing firms that are becoming
involved in the PE industry. The report will also discuss in what parts of the
world the fabs for the emerging PE industry will be built and where the first
PE clusters are likely to appear.
Applications covered will include displays (OLEDs, e-paper, electrochromic),
backplanes, RFID (tags and antennas), sensors, photovoltaics, computer memory
and others. Printing technology covered will include ink-jet printing and all
varieties of traditional printing (screen, flexo, gravure, etc) and we will
also discuss how the manufacturing technology mix is likely to change in the
future. Also included will be a discussion of which printing processes are
being adopted by which application and why, as well as an assessment of the
market and product strategies of key manufacturing equipment firms supply the
PE including how printing equipment firms are adapting their technology to
meet the electronics environment.
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