Abstract
Amazon' s Kindle e-book reader is selling well. Rollable e-paper displays will
be on the market this year. Serious progress is being made towards color
e-paper displays. Clearly, e-paper is now well on its way to becoming a viable
consumer technology. This forthcoming report from NanoMarkets analyzes the new
market environment for e-paper, assesses the latest technology and provides a
quantitative and qualitative forecast for shipments of e-paper products of all
kinds ranging from book readers and flexible mobile displays to signage and
smart shelving.
This new NanoMarkets report also examines the many uncertainties and
challenges that beset the e-paper market. With e-paper now well into the
commercialization phase, one key objective of this report will be to project
performance improvements expected over the next eight years and assess the
marketing importance of such factors as flexibility, system architecture,
resolutions, backplane switching speeds, and color capability.
The report also examines which e-paper technologies will be successful and
why. Many of the successes of e-paper to date have come from offerings using
electrophoretic technology. So what is the future of the many competing
technologies such cholesteric LCDs or electrochromic. Also, many of the
products being designed with e-paper are entirely novel and have no
established markets. How can these markets be successfully created and new
supply chains built?
NanoMarkets has been covering the e-paper market for almost four years and
this report is a follow-on from our successful 2007 e-paper report. It
provides our views on the latest product announcements and provides special
focus on the future of color e-paper and flexible displays. We also examine
in-depth the latest thinking on manufacturing processes and materials used to
get e-paper to the market. Finally, the report provides strategic profiles of
the leading providers of e-paper and a detailed eight-year market forecast of
e-paper markets, broken out by application, materials and technology.
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