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Analysts on Flexible, Organic, and Printable Electronics
December 31, 1969 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
NanoMarkets and IDTechEx both released reports on flexible, printed, and organic electronics (FPOE), including data on dielectric materials for next-generation thin-film, organic, and printable electronics assemblies; applications for these technologies; end products in the market now; and an upcoming printed electronics show.
Va.-based NanoMarkets LC finds the dielectric materials for thin-film, organic, and printable (TOP) electronics will reach more than $635 million by 2015. The firm suggests that putting the "right" materials into the supply chain will be critical to TOP materials providers' success. NanoMarkets predicts that TOP dielectrics business will begin to take shape in 2010. Today's common dielectrics require high-temperature deposition and therefore are not well matched with next-generation TOP electronics and solution processing on flexible substrates. Novel dielectrics will play a key role in enabling flexible backplanes to support more than just low-refresh-rate e-paper displays and also will be critical to creating thin-film solar on metal foil substrates. OTFT-based ultra-high-frequency (UHF) RFID may depend on a better match between the semiconductor and dielectric materials used. NanoMarkets believes that those firms which plan to offer dielectrics matched to the conductor and semiconductor materials in their portfolio will have a distinct market advantage. BASF, Evonik, Merck/EMD and Polyera are well positioned in this regard. Applications, along with eight-year forecasts of dielectric markets broken out by material type and application, covered in NanoMarkets's report "Thin-Film, Organic and Printable Dielectrics" include conventional TFT backplanes, various OTFT products, printed silicon devices, OLEDs, sensors, and thin-film solar panels. Activities of private and university research institutes are discussed. www.nanomarkets.net.
Printed electronics enables the printing of circuits, displays, sensors, batteries, and solar cells with new attributes such as flexibility and stretch, light weight, and cost reductions. IDTechEx lists newspapers with a moving display, skin patches that automate delivery of drugs, digital billboards, plastic solar cells, and other innovations as attributable to this technology. The firm asserts that chemical, printing, electronics, and packaging companies are working on the topic with actual implementations available to consumers now. The analyst company is promoting its Printed Electronics USA 2008 event, December 25 in San Jose, Calif. The conference is slated to cover industry forecasts to technology breakthroughs and products; and tours to local companies including Fujifilm Dimatix, Kovio, University of California Berkeley, and Artificial Muscle. www.idtechex.com.