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| 1. | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS |
| 1.1. | Definitions |
| 1.1. | 2014 market status by component type |
| 1.1. | Description and analysis of the main technology components of printed and potentially printed electronics |
| 1.2. | Current opportunity, market size and profitability |
| 1.2. | Market forecast by component type for 2014-2024 in US $ billions, for printed and potentially printed electronics including organic, inorganic and composites |
| 1.2. | Market Potential and Profitability |
| 1.3. | Market in 2014 |
| 1.3. | The printed electronics value chain |
| 1.3. | Market forecast by component type for 2014-2024 in US $ billions, for printed and potentially printed electronics including organic, inorganic and composites |
| 1.4. | The different states of readiness of organic and inorganic electronic technologies (semiconductors and conductors) |
| 1.4. | Spend on organic versus inorganic materials 2014-2024 US$ billion |
| 1.4. | Total market size 2014 to 2024 |
| 1.5. | Value Chain and Investment |
| 1.5. | Market value $ billions of only printed electronics 2014-2024 |
| 1.5. | Spend on organic versus inorganic materials 2014-2024 US$ billion |
| 1.6. | Split of material types by component |
| 1.6. | Total market value of printed versus non-printed electronics 2014-2024 US$ billion |
| 1.6. | Organic versus inorganic electronics |
| 1.7. | Printed versus non-printed electronics |
| 1.7. | Market value $ billions of only flexible/conformal electronics 2014-2024 |
| 1.7. | Market value $ billions of only printed electronics 2014-2024 |
| 1.8. | Total market value of printed versus non-printed electronics 2014-2024 US$ billion |
| 1.8. | Total market value of flexible versus non-flexible electronics 2014-2024 in US$ billion |
| 1.8. | Flexible/conformal versus rigid electronics |
| 1.9. | Market by territory |
| 1.9. | Market by Territory 2014-2024 in US$ billion |
| 1.9. | Market value $ billions of only flexible/conformal electronics 2014-2024 |
| 1.10. | Total market value of flexible/conformal versus rigid electronics 2014-2024 in US$ billion |
| 1.10. | Examples of organic and inorganic electronics and electrics potentially tackling different technologies and applications |
| 1.10. | The long term view |
| 1.11. | The value chain and unmet needs |
| 1.11. | The potential annual global sales of each type by 2024 in US$ billions and percentage |
| 1.11. | The market for printed and potentially printed electronics by territory in $ billion 2014-2035 |
| 1.12. | Possible breakdown of the market for printed and potentially printed electronics in 2035 by numbers and value |
| 1.12. | The potential annual global sales of each type by 2035 in US$ billions |
| 1.12. | Go to Market Strategies |
| 1.13. | Printed electronics needs new design rules |
| 1.13. | The emerging value chain is unbalanced |
| 1.13. | Success and failures |
| 1.14. | Those going to market first move right |
| 1.14. | What End Users want - results from 20 end user surveys |
| 1.15. | Successes, failures and repositioners |
| 1.15. | Examples of printed electronics creating new products |
| 2. | INTRODUCTION |
| 2.1. | Ten year forecasts of unusual breadth |
| 2.1. | Market forecasts for 2035 in US$ billion |
| 2.1. | Market forecasts for 2035 in US$ billion |
| 2.2. | End user markets relevant to printed electronics |
| 2.2. | Leading market drivers 2024 |
| 2.2. | Terminology and definitions |
| 2.3. | Scope for printed electronics and electrics |
| 2.3. | Giant industries collaborate for the first time |
| 2.3. | Leading market drivers 2024 |
| 2.4. | Some potential benefits of printed and partly printed organic and inorganic electronics and electrics over conventional devices and non-electronic printing in various applications |
| 2.4. | The 3,000 organisations tackling printed and potentially printed devices and their materials |
| 2.4. | There is a bigger picture |
| 2.5. | The potential significance of organic and printed inorganic electronics |
| 2.5. | Smart iontophoretic skin patches |
| 2.5. | Types of printed/thin film photovoltaics beyond silicon compared, with examples of suppliers |
| 2.6. | Primary assumptions of organic electronics in full production 2013-2035 |
| 2.6. | Esquire magazine with animated display September 2008 |
| 2.6. | 3,000 organisations active in the field |
| 2.7. | Printed electronics products today |
| 2.7. | T-equaliser animated t-shirt |
| 2.8. | OLED TV from LG |
| 2.8. | Highest volume products with no silicon chip |
| 2.9. | Printed electronics with silicon chips/hybrid electronics |
| 2.9. | How printed electronics is being applied to products |
| 2.9.1. | Electronic apparel |
| 2.9.2. | Display and lighting |
| 2.9.3. | Stretchable electronic products for sale |
| 2.10. | Displays are the main sector for now |
| 2.10. | Printed Electronics Applications |
| 2.11. | Typical price breaks for high volume electronics and examples of potential advances |
| 2.11. | Photovoltaics beyond conventional silicon are the second largest market |
| 2.12. | How printed electronics is being applied |
| 2.12. | Some of the potential markets |
| 2.12.1. | Markets in 2014 |
| 2.12.2. | Surprisingly poor progress with low cost electronics so far |
| 2.13. | Threat - silicon chips keep getting cheaper |
| 2.14. | Challenging conventional electronics |
| 2.15. | Flexible is a big market |
| 2.16. | Assumptions for forecasts |
| 3. | LOGIC AND MEMORY |
| 3.1. | Logic and memory market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 3.1. | Global market for printed electronics logic and memory 2014-2024 |
| 3.1. | Global market for printed electronics logic and memory 2014-2024 in billions of dollars, with % printed and % flexible |
| 3.2. | Logic and memory application - unit numbers millions 2014-2024 |
| 3.2. | Traditional geometry for a field effect transistor |
| 3.2. | Logic and memory forecast by application 2014-2024 |
| 3.3. | Impact on silicon |
| 3.3. | Semiconductor options |
| 3.3. | Logic and memory - average cost US dollar 2014-2024 |
| 3.4. | Logic and memory - total value 2014-2024 |
| 3.4. | The market space for display backplanes that is likely to be filled by oxide semiconductor thin film transistors |
| 3.4. | Fools underestimate silicon |
| 3.5. | Transistor design |
| 3.5. | Road map |
| 3.5. | Scope for printed TFTCs to create new markets or replace silicon chips |
| 3.6. | Advantages of printed and thin film transistors and memory vs traditional silicon |
| 3.6. | Demonstrator with various components from Thinfilm, PARC, Acreo and PST Sensors |
| 3.6. | The main options for semiconductors |
| 3.6.1. | What reads to most of the potential strengths of printed transistors |
| 3.6.2. | Primary market focus of developers |
| 3.6.3. | Shakeout of organic transistor developers |
| 3.6.4. | Oxide Semiconductors |
| 3.6.5. | Carbon Nanotube and Graphene |
| 3.6.6. | Company strategy and value chain |
| 3.7. | Memory |
| 3.7. | Thinfilm memory compared with the much more complex DRAM in silicon |
| 3.7. | Key parameters of thin-film deposition techniques |
| 3.8. | Structure of Thinfilm memory |
| 3.8. | Flexible memristor |
| 4. | DISPLAYS |
| 4.1. | Market drivers |
| 4.1. | How major trends have driven technology innovation in the display industry at different eras |
| 4.1. | Some new and established display technologies compared |
| 4.2. | Comparison of the features of various technologies for advertising and signage |
| 4.2. | Timeline of activity in the OLED space in terms of joint ventures, partnerships and collaborations |
| 4.2. | OLED Displays |
| 4.2.1. | OLED Development timeline |
| 4.2.2. | Current OLED Products |
| 4.2.3. | OLEDs and the beginning of the end for LCDs |
| 4.2.4. | OLEDs - a rapidly growing market |
| 4.2.5. | Current Technical Approaches for OLED TV |
| 4.2.6. | OLED investment |
| 4.2.7. | Potential Scenarios for OLED TV |
| 4.2.8. | OLED production capacity |
| 4.2.9. | OLED market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.2.10. | Unmet technical needs for OLEDs |
| 4.3. | Electrophoretic and other bi-stable displays |
| 4.3. | Examples of key OLED display products on the market. The products include cameras, tablets, music players, mobile phones, TVs, etc and the producers include Nokia, Sony, Samsung, LG, HTC, Microsoft, Motorola, etc. |
| 4.3. | Announced and exiting production plans of major companies |
| 4.3.1. | Applications of E-paper displays |
| 4.3.2. | Ubiquity or obsolescence: how is E Ink's success story going to end? |
| 4.3.3. | Electrowetting displays |
| 4.3.4. | Electrophoretic and Bi-Stable displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.4. | Electrochromic |
| 4.4. | Market forecasts for OLED panel displays 2014-2024 |
| 4.4. | Volume production (in units) for different companies in the OLED display space for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 |
| 4.4.1. | Electrochromic displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.5. | AC Electroluminescent |
| 4.5. | Market forecasts for OLED panel displays 2014-2024 |
| 4.5. | Electrophoretic and Bi-stable displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.5.1. | Electroluminescent displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.6. | Other display technologies |
| 4.6. | Electrochromic displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.6. | Principle of operation of electrophoretic displays |
| 4.6.1. | Thermochromic |
| 4.6.2. | Flexible LCDs |
| 4.7. | E-paper displays on a magazine sold in the US in October 2008 |
| 4.7. | Electroluminescent displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.8. | Secondary display on a cell phone |
| 4.9. | Amazon Kindle 2, launched in the US in February 2009 |
| 4.10. | White state reflectance % |
| 4.11. | Competitive analysis of E Ink (Pearl) vs. Liquavista and Mirasol displays |
| 4.12. | Global electrophoretic e-readers sales (in million units) |
| 4.13. | Droplet contracting and relaxing from Liquavista |
| 4.14. | Electrophoretic and Bi-stable displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.15. | Electrochromic display on a Valentine's card sold by Marks and Spencer in the UK in 2004 and electrochromic display with drive circuits in a laminate for smart cards |
| 4.16. | Electrochromic displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.17. | Boardroom lighting in Alcatel France that switches to various modes |
| 4.18. | Animated EL artwork in a two meter suspended ball for event lighting |
| 4.19. | Coyopa rum with four segment sequentially switched pictures |
| 4.20. | TV controller |
| 4.21. | Electroluminescent displays market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 4.22. | Duracell battery tester |
| 4.23. | Interactive game on a beer package by VTT Technologies in Finland |
| 4.24. | Color LCD by photo alignment |
| 4.25. | Color printable flexible LCD |
| 5. | OLED AND LED LIGHTING |
| 5.1. | Value proposition of OLED vs. LED lighting |
| 5.1. | Comparing the attributes of OLED and LED lighting using a radar chart |
| 5.1. | OLED Lighting market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 5.2. | Market growth of LEDs in the backlighting, automotive and general lighting sectors between 2013 and 2023* |
| 5.2. | LED Market - a detailed overview |
| 5.2.1. | The LED Market - Backlighting |
| 5.2.2. | The LED Market - Automotive |
| 5.2.3. | The LED Market - General Lighting |
| 5.2.4. | The LED Market - Market Figures |
| 5.3. | OLED Lighting - market analysis |
| 5.3. | OLED Lighting market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 5.3.1. | Cost projection |
| 5.3.2. | OLED Market penetration |
| 5.3.3. | OLED Value Chain |
| 5.3.4. | OLED market forecast |
| 6. | PHOTOVOLTAICS |
| 6.1. | Crystalline Silicon |
| 6.1. | Applied Baccini Pegaso printer |
| 6.1. | Photovoltaics forecast breakdown US$ billion 2014-2024 |
| 6.2. | Roadmap for the reduction of silver utilization |
| 6.2. | Thin Film Photovoltaics |
| 6.2.1. | Amorphous Silicon |
| 6.2.2. | CdTe |
| 6.2.3. | CIGS |
| 6.2.4. | DSSCs |
| 6.2.5. | Organic PV |
| 6.3. | Market trends and Forecasts |
| 6.3. | Examples of a-Si PV |
| 6.3.1. | Crystalline Silicon |
| 6.3.2. | Thin films |
| 6.4. | Applications of CIGS technology |
| 6.5. | Current and envisaged future products incorporating dye sensitized solar cells |
| 6.6. | Illustrations of organic photovoltaics |
| 6.7. | Total photovoltaics market forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 7. | BATTERIES AND FLEXIBLE SUPERCAPACITORS |
| 7.1. | Batteries forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 7.1. | Shapes of battery for small RFID tags advantages and disadvantages |
| 7.1.1. | Importance of laminar batteries |
| 7.1.2. | Choices of laminar battery |
| 7.2. | Printed batteries forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 7.2. | Advantages and disadvantages of some options for supplying electricity to small devices |
| 7.2. | Estee Lauder smart skin patch which delivers cosmetics using the iontophoretic effect |
| 7.2.1. | Laminar batteries - missing the big opportunity? |
| 7.3. | Batteries forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 8. | SENSORS AND OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS |
| 8.1. | Definitions |
| 8.1. | Sensor forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 8.1. | Rigid, printed and flexible substrates |
| 8.2. | Sensor forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 8.2. | Printed and flexible sensors forecasts 2014-2024 |
| 8.2.1. | Biomedical sensors |
| 8.2.2. | Touch sensors |
| 8.2.3. | Force and pressure sensors |
| 8.2.4. | Light/image sensors |
| 8.2.5. | Gas sensors |
| 8.2.6. | Temperature sensors |
| 8.2.7. | Consumer |
| 8.3. | Printed and flexible sensor forecasts by application in 2014 |
| 8.3. | Main drivers for adoption of printed and flexible sensors |
| 8.4. | Market for printed sensors in 2014 |
| 9. | MARKET BY TERRITORY, COMPONENTS, MATERIALS, OPPORTUNITIES |
| 9.1. | Market by territory |
| 9.1. | Organisations involved in printed and potentially printed electronics across the world, by type of interest |
| 9.1. | The market for printed and potentially printed electronics by territory in $ billion 2014-2035 |
| 9.1.1. | Number of active organisations globally in this field |
| 9.1.2. | Geographical split 2014-2035 |
| 9.1.3. | Giant corporations of the world and their progress with printed electronics |
| 9.2. | The total market opportunity by component |
| 9.2. | Examples of giant corporations intending to make the printed and potentially printed devices with the largest market potential, showing East Asia dominant. |
| 9.2. | Primary devices being developed |
| 9.3. | Market by Territory 2014-2023 in US$ billion |
| 9.3. | Examples of giant corporations, making or intending to make materials for printed and potentially printed electronics |
| 9.3. | Organic versus Inorganic |
| 9.4. | Printed versus non-printed electronics |
| 9.4. | Summary of the trends by territory |
| 9.4. | Number of printed electronics products by country |
| 9.5. | Market forecast by component type for 2014-2024 in US$ billions, for printed and potentially printed electronics including organic, inorganic and composites |
| 9.5. | Market forecast by component type for 2014-2024 in US$ billions, for printed and potentially printed electronics including organic, inorganic and composites |
| 9.5. | Flexible/conformal versus rigid electronics |
| 9.6. | Market forecasts for materials 2014-2024 |
| 9.6. | Market forecasts for 2035 in US$ billion |
| 9.6. | Market forecasts for 2035 in US$ billion |
| 9.7. | Spend on organic versus inorganic materials 2014-2024 US$ billion |
| 9.7. | Spend on organic versus inorganic materials 2014-2024 US$ billion |
| 9.7. | Impact of printed electronics on conventional markets |
| 9.7.1. | Impact on end-use markets |
| 9.7.2. | Potential markets |
| 9.8. | Split of material types by component |
| 9.8. | Market value $ billions of only printed electronics 2014-2024 |
| 9.9. | Market value $ billions of only flexible/conformal electronics 2014-2024 |
| 9.9. | Market value $ billions of only printed electronics 2014-2024 |
| 9.10. | Market value $ billions of only flexible/conformal electronics 2014-2024 |
| 9.10. | Relative investments from the key areas of printed electronics development |
| 9.11. | Materials market forecast 2013-2023 US$ billion |
| 9.11. | Materials market forecasts 2014-2024 US$ billion |
| 9.12. | End user markets relevant to printed and potentially printed electronics |
| 9.12. | Examples of organic and inorganic electronics and electrics potentially tackling different technologies and applications |
| 9.13. | The potential annual global sales of each type by 2024 in US$ billions and percentage |
| 9.13. | Possible breakdown of the market for printed and potentially printed electronics in 2035 by numbers and value |
| 9.14. | The potential annual global sales of each type by 2035 in US$ billions |
| 9.15. | Some of the potential markets |
| 10. | UNMET NEEDS, HOT TOPICS, OPPORTUNITIES AND PROGRESS |
| 10.1. | Rare materials and the effect of commodity material prices on driving innovation in printed, organic and flexible electronics |
| 10.1. | The price of indium has been fluctuating over the years, creating uncertainty for end users |
| 10.1. | Water vapour and oxygen transmission rates of various materials. |
| 10.1.1. | Indium |
| 10.1.2. | Silver and Copper ink |
| 10.2. | Need for better flexible, transparent, low cost barriers |
| 10.2. | Requirements of barrier materials |
| 10.2. | The price of silver (shown in $/oz) has spiked in recent years, largely due to the global economic downturn |
| 10.2.1. | Encapsulation technologies |
| 10.2.2. | Dyads |
| 10.2.3. | Flexible glass |
| 10.2.4. | Flexible barriers forecasts |
| 10.3. | Transparent Conductive Films and touch surfaces |
| 10.3. | Schematic diagrams for encapsulated structures a) conventional b) laminated c) deposited in situ |
| 10.3. | Market share of transparent conductive films |
| 10.4. | A percentage breakdown of the market by applications for flexible barrier films in 2013 |
| 10.4. | Lack of standardized benchmarking |
| 10.5. | Urgent need for creative product design |
| 10.5. | Progress of confirmed research-scale photovoltaic device efficiencies, under AM 1.5 simulated solar illumination, for a variety of technologies |
| 10.5.1. | Smart packaging |
| 10.6. | Innovative product designers/ sellers are in short supply |
| 11. | COMPANY PROFILES |
| 11.1. | Agfa Materials |
| 11.1. | Semiconductor development at Evonik |
| 11.1. | Other players in the value chain |
| 11.2. | Target range for mobility and processing temperature of semiconductors |
| 11.2. | AGC Asahi Glass |
| 11.3. | BASF |
| 11.3. | Transfer characteristics of gen3 semiconductor system |
| 11.4. | Current efficiency of a Novaled PIN OLEDTM stack on an inkjet printed, transparent conductive ITO anode |
| 11.4. | Bayer MaterialScience AG |
| 11.5. | Cambrios Technologies Corp |
| 11.5. | A flexible display sample |
| 11.6. | Printed electronics samples |
| 11.6. | Coatema Coating Machinery |
| 11.7. | Corning |
| 11.7. | New electronics targets physical space |
| 11.8. | Large-area electronics |
| 11.8. | Dai Nippon Printing |
| 11.9. | DuPont Microcircuit Materials |
| 11.9. | 32" pressure sensor matrix |
| 11.10. | Wireless power transmission sheet |
| 11.10. | E Ink Holdings |
| 11.11. | Evonik |
| 11.11. | Device structure |
| 11.12. | Organic transistors |
| 11.12. | Fujifilm Dimatix |
| 11.13. | GSI Technologies LLC |
| 11.13. | Organic transistor 3D ICs |
| 11.14. | Scanner with no moving parts |
| 11.14. | Heliatek GmbH |
| 11.15. | Henkel |
| 11.15. | Scanning a wine bottle label |
| 11.16. | Stretchable electronics |
| 11.16. | Heraeus GmbH |
| 11.17. | Hewlett Packard |
| 11.18. | InkTec Co Ltd |
| 11.19. | ITRI Taiwan |
| 11.20. | Kovio Inc |
| 11.21. | Kunshan Hisense Electronics |
| 11.22. | Merck KGaA |
| 11.23. | NovaCentrix |
| 11.24. | Optomec |
| 11.25. | Peratech Ltd |
| 11.26. | Philips Corporate Technologies |
| 11.27. | Plastic Logic |
| 11.28. | Plextronics Inc |
| 11.29. | PolyIC |
| 11.30. | Printechnologics |
| 11.31. | Samsung |
| 11.32. | Showa Denko |
| 11.33. | Soligie |
| 11.34. | Thin Film Electronics |
| 11.35. | TNO Holst Centre |
| 11.36. | Toppan Forms |
| 11.37. | Toppan Printing |
| 11.38. | University of Tokyo |
| 11.39. | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
| 11.40. | Other players in this value chain |
| APPENDIX 1: MATRIX OF PRINTED ELECTRONICS SUPPLIERS AND ACTIVITIES | |
| IDTECHEX RESEARCH REPORTS AND CONSULTANCY | |
| TABLES | |
| FIGURES |
| Pages | 325 |
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| Tables | 56 |
| Figures | 113 |
| Forecasts to | 2024 |