Abstract
"Organic electronics" is widely proposed as a platform for a broad and growing
range of electronics products. Small organic LED displays already generate
hundreds of millions of dollars. Larger OLED displays will penetrate the
television market in the not-too-distant future. Considerable resources are
being thrown into making substantial businesses out of organic RFIDs,
backplanes based on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) and organic solar
cells. Organic electronics-based sensors, memory and lighting are not far
behind.
As a result of these innovations, conductive polymers, organic photovoltaic
materials and other organics used in organic electronics have prospects for
moving from a markets measured in kilograms to ones measured in metric tons.
At the same time interest in organic electronics is spurring considerable
research activity and new product innovations. Small molecule inks, hybrid
organic/inorganic materials, and even biological materials are being
commercialized for use in various electronics applications.
However, there are also challenges. Organic materials typically exhibit
conductivities that are orders of magnitude lower than the silicon
semiconductor industry has come to expect. There are also remain major issues
about environmental stability of such materials; issues that are spurring
growth for encapsulation/barrier materials. And in some quarters there are
serious questions being raised about whether organic electronics may not
ultimately fail, its role in large-area and thin-film electronics stolen by
cheaper and better performing inorganic nanomaterials.
This report analyzes and forecasts the prospects for organic electronics
materials in the coming eight years. In the report, we review the range of
materials currently be utilized for organic electronics applications and
explore interesting research directions that are being taken in universities
and industrial labs. We also investigate how the organic materials markets are
changing and being changed by manufacturing approaches and how the recent
developments are enabling new and improved organic electronics devices.
The report also includes approximately 20 strategic profiles of leading
suppliers of materials for organic electronics, and forecasts of demand for
these materials in both revenues and volume terms. In these forecasts we break
out the market by type of material, manufacturing technology and application.
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