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The commercial use of gas separation membranes is not new; the industry grew considerably from the 1980s to the early 2000s to become a stable market of modest size. As market drivers accelerate applications with gas separation needs, primarily for decarbonization, and materials developments mature; the market will enter a new phase of growth. Gas Separation Membranes 2023-2033 provides a critical technology roadmap and market outlook for this evolving industry.

This report provides an in-depth technical analysis of thermal interface materials for electric vehicles, data centers, EMI shielding, 5G, ADAS, and consumer electronics. 10-year granular area (m2), mass (kg), revenue (US$), and TIM unit price (US$) forecasts are given by application. The report covers recent developments of high-performance TIMs, successful commercial uses, and historic TIM player acquisition/partnerships. The report also identifies the future TIM trends.

The report assesses the market for 8 different conductive ink types across 15 applications. Based on interviews with over 30 companies, it outlines technical developments and compares ink properties across flake-based silver, nanoparticle-based silver, copper, stretchable/thermoformable, particle-free conductive inks and more. Application opportunities are evaluated, along with their associated conductive ink requirements. The opportunities include photovoltaics, multiple types of printed sensors, hybrid and in-mold electronics, and RFID/smart packaging.

Materials Informatics represents an R&D paradigm shift by fundamentally accelerating the time from innovation to market. There are multiple strategic approaches and many notable success stories; missing this transition will be costly. This report provides key insights into the market, forecasting its growth to 2033. Through technical primary interviews with 24 players, readers will get a detailed understanding of the players, business models, technology, and the application areas.

This report explores 8 distinct applications of optical and radio-frequency metamaterials, including reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, metalenses, and radar beamforming. Based on interactions with over 15 companies, it outlines the key technologies, establishes their readiness levels, and assess the suitability of multiple competing manufacturing methods. 33 forecast lines, segmented by frequency and application, illustrate how the metamaterial market will evolve over the next 20 years.

A new market research report from IDTechEx, "Advanced Semiconductor Packaging 2023-2033," has been published. This report covers the latest advanced semiconductor packaging technology development trends, key player analysis, and market outlook. In addition, this report delivers a profound analysis of the semiconductor industry in general. IDTechEx draws on its data center, autonomous vehicle, 5G, and consumer electronics expertise to offer the reader with an in-depth insight of how advanced semiconductor packaging is affecting these sectors and what their future may hold.

Graphene has long been seen as a "wonder material" and the solution to many of the world's challenges. The reality is very different and an immediate impact was not observed. However, the industry has been progressing over the past decade and a tipping point is now being observed with notable trials progressing into orders, significant capacity installations, and price reductions. Grahene-related materials are a large family ranging from powders to wafers; this report looks at all these forms. Bechmarking studies, granular forecasts, company profiles, manufacturer capacity/revenue/P&L are all included. IDTechEx has an extensive history in this industry and leverage an extensive amount of primary research to bring the reader the most accurate and up to date technical and market information. Beyond graphene there is an emerging family of 2D materials each with unique properties and potential across a range of commercial applications. Nearly all are at a very early-stage of development; IDTechEx provides an assessment and outlook with a specific focus on boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides, MXenes, and Xenes.

After years of promise, we are witnessing the first major market adoption of nanocarbons. Although known for several decades, with a large amount of commercial engagement, and some extraordinary properties, CNTs have largely been kept to specific applications and relatively low market sales until now. IDTechEx forecast the CNT market to exceed 70 ktpa annual demand by 2032, driven by the role in energy storage. This market report gives a comprehensive overview of the CNT industry including the manufacturers, material and process landscape, applications, and forecasts.

Medical hydrogels grow fast but the rest will overtake. Only this report appraises all the rest 2022-2042 with roadmaps, forecasts, gaps in the market, implications of 2021/2022 research pipeline, patents. Learn how the dominant chemistries, applications and functions are changing and how to create $1 billion operations serving the emerging, non-medical applications including agriculture, water capture and treatment, chemical industry, electronic and electrical devices with batteries and sensors looking strong.

Self-healing materials can save trillions of dollars wasted in premature repair and replacement of structures. Concrete, plastics and some other materials can already self-heal to some extent but huge payback comes from something better. What is the business potential, when? What technologies and applications are best and what does the research pipeline promise? Only this commercially-oriented report has the answers in clear new infograms, comparison tables and forecasts 2022-2042.

Uniquely, this commercially-oriented report explains how the cement and concrete industry can transform to zero-emission and rapid profitable growth from new formulations, products and capabilities. It can open up many new markets such as multifunctional concrete (electrical, optical etc.) and 3D printed large structures free of steel reinforcement. It can sell surplus zero emission electricity and its storage by leveraging site assets. Source is PhD level, multilingual IDTechEx analysts worldwide.

Electrically conductive adhesive (ECAs) are a competitor to solder. ECAs are set to become a key conductive joining technology across several industries, such as flexible electronics, in-mold electronics, and wearable technologies. This report includes key insights and commercial outlooks for the global electrically conductive adhesive market. The report considers electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs), including isotropic conductive adhesives (ICAs), anisotropic conductive pastes (ACPs) and anisotropic conductive films (ACFs). 10-year ECA market forecasts are given for each application area.

Aerogels are a family of nanoporous materials that have been known for nearly 100 years. There has been a complex history, with key commercial uptake starting in the 21{^st} century. The market is dominated by silica aerogel blankets. This is used as insulation material predominantly for the oil & gas industry. There is lots of activity as new players scale up, particularly in China, and new applications are found, from EV battery packs to building & construction. Beyond silica, there is the emerging field of polymer and carbon aerogels that are at a very early-stage of commercialisation and have the capacity to take the industry in entirely new directions. This report covers the main technologies, players, and markets for the aerogel industry. IDTechEx has been studying the field for many years and brings the most comprehensive and accurate information on this evolving market.

Understand the $20 billion market emerging for transparent electronics as windows in buildings, greenhouses, trains. Include electric vehicle skylights making electricity and darkening at a touch. Consider smart watch glass, radar-enabled headlights, see-through billboards with OLED and micro LED images, "floating in space". Add conformal overlayers as invisible circuits, sensors, heaters, antennas. Metamaterials, 5G and 6G communications are involved and even new transparent photovoltaic overlayers boosting silicon grid power.

Assess the multibillion dollar opportunity of electronics and electrics becoming smart materials - tape, film, even paint for healthcare, wearables, buildings and more. Research, much in 2020, is analysed into a commercialisation timeline 2020-2040, winners and losers. The user will cut, morph stretch or spray it to shape. Set functions such as light emission and electricity creation and storage. This is both creating new markets and bypassing traditional electronics production.

This report investigates the market for various die and substrate attach materials used in power electronics in various electric vehicles. It builds a detailed quantitative model to forecast the addressable market size for die as well as substrate attach materials in various power electronic functions in all manners of electric vehicles. It also develops ten-year market forecasts, in value and mass, segmenting the market by material type. The materials considered herein include nano silver sintering, micro-silver sintering, Cu sintering, SAC and other solders, and transient liquid phase bonding materials.

The market for transparent conductive films and materials has been rapidly changing. This continuing transformation is taking place at all levels: technologies, applications and suppliers. In this report we provide the most comprehensive and authoritative view of this industry.

IDTechEx Research has been analysing the technologies and markets for quantum dots since 2013. Since that time, it has stayed extremely close to the latest research and market developments via its interview programme and company and conference visits.

The key next iteration for fiber reinforced polymer composites is the concept of multifunctionality. This is the idea of making a structural part carry out additional role(s) beyond their current primary mechanical task. The market for smart composites is forecast to exceed 5 ktpa by 2029. This includes: enhanced electrical & thermal conductivity, embedded sensors & actuators, energy storage & harvesting, data transmission, self-healing, and adaptive response (morphing) mechanisms.

This report characterizes the solid-state battery technologies, materials, market, supply chain and players. It assesses and benchmarks the available solid-state battery technologies, introduces most players worldwide and analyzes the key players in this field, forecasted from 2023 to 2033 over 10 application areas of 3 key technology categories for both capacity and market value. The report also analyzes the hype and hopes behind solid-state batteries, providing deep technological and business insights.

In-Mold Electronics 2023-2033 analyses the technology and market opportunities associated with this emerging manufacturing methodology. Drawing on over 20 company profiles, the majority based on interview, this report evaluates the technical processes, material requirements, applications, and competing methodologies associated with IME such as functional film bonding. It includes 10-year market forecasts by technology and application sector, expressed as both revenue and IME panel area. For the largest target market of automotive interiors, these forecasts for human machine interfaces (HMI) are segmented into mechanical and four distinct types of capacitive switches.

Manufacturing Printed Electronics 2023-2033 explores the developments, transitions, and technological innovations within the printed electronics equipment market. Drawing on interviews and interactions with over 30 companies, we assess the attributes, readiness level, use cases and market demand for 20 analogue/digital printing and component attachment technologies applicable to printed electronics, ranging from conventional screen printing to laser induced forward transfer and photonic soldering.

Quantum computing promises a revolution in computational capabilities. This accessible report evaluates key technologies, companies, drivers for growth and adoption barriers across this emerging industry. Multiple competing technologies are assessed: superconducting, silicon-spin, photonic, trapped-ion, neutral-atom, topological, diamond-defect, and annealing. Detailed SWOT analysis, company roadmaps, and benchmarking are provided for each modality, along with twenty-year market forecast outlining the prospects of each.

IDTechEx has been studying telecommunication technologies for many years and we have just released our latest version of the 6G market research report "6G Market 2023-2043: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players". This report is built on our expertise, covering the latest 6G technology development trend, key applications, player activities, and market outlook. Key aspects in this report include THz technologies trend, semiconductors for THz communication, THz phase array antenna modules, 6G radio analysis, low-loss materials, packaging trend for 6G, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), Metamaterials, Non-terrestrial networks, integrated sensing and communication, 6G market, and future outlook.

The increasing deployment of 5G devices globally has made this a multi-billion-dollar industry. The most revolutionary aspect of the 5G network relies on high frequency 5G technologies, which will take off later in the decade. mmWave 5G devices will use low-loss materials to reduce the transmission loss at both the PCB and package level. It drives the low-loss materials market for 5G, which will be over US$1.8B by 2033.

This report provides a market overview of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), exploring the industry's advancements, business models, and environmental and regulatory aspects, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for growth. It includes a comprehensive 20-year market forecast across 12 sub-categories of the CCUS market, historical data of CCUS projects dating back to 1972, 37 interview-based company profiles, and technology benchmarking to provide a clear picture of the CCUS landscape.

The report assesses sustainable methods of electronics manufacturing. It evaluates how sustainable innovations within printed circuit boards and integrated circuits can drive forward a new era of electronics. Featuring granular market forecasts, the report covers different materials and manufacturing processes that can deliver environmental improvements in a way that is scalable and cost-effective. IDTechEx expects that within a decade, 20% of PCBs could be manufactured using more sustainable methods.

Despite a lower fire occurrence rate than combustion vehicles, fire safety is critical for electric vehicles and presents several material opportunities. This report considers the regulation and battery design trends and how this will impact fire protection materials such as ceramics, mica, aerogels, coatings, encapsulants, foams, compression pads, phase change materials, and more. Market forecasts are given in yearly mass demand and market value, segmented by material and vehicle.

Materials demand for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells is set to grow in line with an expanding fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) market. This IDTechEx report contains market forecasts, benchmarking studies, player analysis, technology trends and latest developments for components in PEM fuel cells, including bipolar plates (BPP), gas diffusion layers (GDL), catalyst coated membrane (CCM), membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), ionomers, and platinum catalysts.

IDTechEx has been studying 5G-related topics for many years and we have just released our latest version of the 5G market research report "5G Market 2023-2033: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players". This report is built on IDTechEx expertise, covering the latest 5G development trend, key player analysis, and market outlook. Key aspects in this report include mmWave technologies trend, open radio access network (Open RAN) development, power management of 5G base stations, heterogeneous smart electromagnetic (EM) environment, detailed regional analysis of 5G status and future roadmap in 5 key regions: U.S., China, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and 5G applications (Industry 4.0, C-V2X, AR/VR, FWA etc) development status.

The chemical recycling of plastics attracts both notable critics and supporters; this is not the silver bullet to the sustainability issue facing all stakeholders in the plastic value chain but equally it will play a not insignificant role in the pursuit of a circular economy. This market report provides an independent assessment on the field, including pyrolysis, depolymerisation, gasification and dissolution processes. 10-year market forecasts provide a crucial unbiased outlook.

Though best known for low-volume, low-cost part production, polymer 3D printing is expanding beyond prototyping and one-offs to penetrate higher value applications, reaching $21 billion in market size by 2033. This is supported by innovation in polymer printing technologies that expand access to a better-performing polymer materials portfolio. Players interested and active in polymer 3D printing would benefit from IDTechEx's technology and market analysis to stay ahead of the competition.

This IDTechEx report provides a market overview of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions, covering engineered and nature-based negative emissions technologies (NETs) that draws CO₂ from the atmosphere. The report explores the technological advancements, business models, and environmental aspects of the nascent CDR industry worldwide, identifying the challenges and opportunities for growth. It includes market forecasts, company profiles, and various assessments to provide a clear picture of the CDR landscape.

The future of solar technology extends far beyond silicon, with numerous alternative materials that belong to a certain class called 'thin film'. These can deliver several unique advantages such as higher efficiency indoor energy harvesting, simpler manufacturing, and potentially lower costs than conventional silicon PV. A particularly exciting opportunity is their role in powering Internet of Things devices - a rapidly growing market following the increasing smartification of home and retail electronics.

Bioplastics manufacturers are scaling production rapidly and the industry is expected to grow by 10.1% CAGR in the next ten years. Manufacturers are driven by brand-owner pull to meet decarbonization commitments, consumer demand for sustainability, and single-use fossil-based plastic ban laws. In this report, IDTechEx explores the drivers of the bioplastic market's growth, analyses key and emerging technologies, examines end-of-life options, discusses applications, and forecasts the opportunities and growth of the market.

Materials present the strongest revenue opportunity within additive manufacturing, but understanding the variety of polymer, metal, and ceramic materials within 3D printing is critical to capitalizing on this opportunity. This report examines the status of established 3D printing materials, presents technical comparison studies, analyzes trends, and provides detailed market forecasts for additive manufacturing materials. For companies involved in 3D printing materials, this report presents key insights and essential knowledge.

This report provides a market overview on the uses of waste carbon dioxide, including enhanced oil recovery, building materials, fuels (synfuels and power-to-gas), polymers (polyols, polycarbonates, polyolefins), chemicals (alcohols, olefins, aromatics, syngas), and in boosting biological yields (crop greenhouses, algae, and fermentation). The report explores the technological, environmental, and economic aspects of anthropogenic CO2 utilization worldwide, identifying the key challenges and opportunities for growth across this emerging industry.

This IDTechEx report assesses the competing technologies that will enable PCBs to be replaced with integrated electronics, saving space, weight and reducing manufacturing complexity. It covers electronic functionality to 3D surfaces, in-mold electronics (IME), and fully 3D printed electronics. Also included are market forecasts, company profiles, readiness level assessments, case studies, and identification of technological challenges/opportunities, thus providing a clear picture of the emerging 3D / additive electronics landscape.

Metal additive manufacturing offers compelling value-add for high revenue generating verticals and applications, but understanding its potential is key to exploiting its benefits. This report examines the status of established and emerging metal 3D printing technologies, presents technical comparison studies, analyzes metal materials, and provides detailed market forecasts for metal 3D printing. For companies in and outside metal additive manufacturing, this report presents key insights and essential knowledge.

5G deployment is in full swing with continued deployment of infrastructure and 5G compatible devices. However, there are still many challenges to address with many material level challenges around thermal management. This report considers the evolution of 5G antenna design and components to analyse trends in semiconductor technology, the associated die attach materials, power supplies and thermal interface materials. Current and emerging technologies are described along with forecasts across these categories through to 2032.

IDTechEx's 3D Printing Hardware: 2022-2032 report is designed to explain and analyze the growth of 3D printing hardware technologies and sales; it is made to be useful for any company in the 3D printing supply chain: materials makers, printer manufacturers, service providers, end-users, and more. This report breaks down the market into 17 technology segments to create 17 COVID-19 adjusted forecast lines for each individual segment. The forecasts provide a ten-year outlook for 3D printer installation base, new installations, replacement unit sales, and revenue from 3D printer sales, all broken down into 17 forecast lines.

Recycling recovers valuable metals from batteries and provides a sustainable route for end-of-life management. In 2042, 12 million tonnes of Li-ion batteries will be recycled with the potential to obtain $51 billion USD in valuable metals. IDTechEx have forecasted this to exponentially increase to 2042. This report includes up-to-date process descriptions, policy explanations, market analysis and company profiles, based on data from 87 Li-ion battery recyclers globally.

The rapidly growing electric vehicle market puts a huge demand on electric motors across several global regions and different vehicle categories. Within this market, we are seeing trends around motor technology and topology, power and torque density, materials utilisation and thermal management. This report addresses these trends within the markets for battery-electric or hybrid cars, vans, trucks, buses and two-wheelers with OEM use-cases, benchmarking and granular market forecasts.

Printed sensors are a rapidly growing technology that offer low-cost processing, flexible thin-film form factor and large area sensing, making them suitable for emerging applications such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, continuous health monitoring and more. This market research report covers the technology and applications of printed photodetectors, piezoresistive and piezoelectric pressure sensors, strain sensors, temperature sensors, printed electrodes, biosensors, and capacitive touch sensors.

Ceramic 3D printing presently exists as a niche of the overall 3D printing industry, but recently more companies - from start-ups to ceramics materials suppliers - have joined the field. This report will examine the status of ceramic 3D printing technologies and materials, identify major players, highlight interesting applications, and provide market forecasts for ceramic 3D printing. For any company looking to enter this small but growing specialty, this report is essential.

3D printing of composite materials is reaching a commercial tipping point. 3D printing of polymer materials can have mechanical limitations that benefit from fiber reinforcement (or other functionalities), and composite manufacturing is known to be costly and challenging that can benefit from the moldless, rapid prototyping and automated approach that additive manufacturing enables. IDTechEx forecast that the market will rapidly rise to reach $2bn by 2031. This market report provides a comprehensive view for 3D printing market for composite materials, including granular 10-year forecasts, material and printer benchmarking studies and interview-based company profiles.

5G, with its ultra-low latency and high data throughput, is paving the way for a fully digitalized and connected world. However, the fact that 5G uses high frequencies brings the challenge of short signal propagation. Consequently, deploying many small cells to create an ultra-dense network becomes essential. IDTechEx has been studying 5G-related topics for many years and this report "5G small cells 2021-2031: Technologies, Markets, Forecasts" is built on our expertise, covering the main technologies, players, and markets for the 5G small cell industry. Moreover, IDTechEx also provides a series of detailed case studies on selected high potential verticals where 5G small cells can be applied to.

The Redox Flow Battery market report includes a substantial change in RFB market size, based on scientific assumptions. IDTechEx calculated the Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) for Lithium-ion battery and redox flow battery systems, to prove the assumptions made in the report. Large adoption of variable renewable energies will push the energy sector for more energy storage capacity. IDTechEx forecasts a multibillion market for RFB in 2031

This report provides a detailed technological analysis with available options and emerging possibilities across the whole manufacturing process, from epitaxy, chip manufacturing, mass transfer and assembly, bonding and interconnection, testing, defect management, repair, light management, full colour realization, to backplane and driving. With addressing the challenges and opportunities, together with the supply chain evaluation, market status assessment & prediction, and player activity analysis, it helps the readers to make better strategic decisions, to find the best technological road map, to seek commercialization and new business opportunities, to know reliable partners, to track the activities of key players, and to get the latest industry progress.

Extensive opportunities for printed and flexible electronics are being created by the transition to electric and autonomous vehicles - these technologies include EV powertrains, interior sensors and displays, and even exterior heating and lighting. This report outlines the current status and opportunities for printed/flexible electronics across 11 application areas, along with 10-year market forecasts by revenue and volume, multiple case studies and assessments of commercial and technological readiness.

IDTechEx's "Air Taxis: Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft" report is designed to help companies understand the emerging urban air mobility market. Providing comprehensive analysis of eVTOL air taxis, from the basics of eVTOL aircraft design architectures, through to OEM players and opportunities in key enabling technologies. The report presents our TCO analysis of eVTOL operations and IDTechEx's independent 20-year forecasts for this transformative new market with considerable long-term potential.

Printed/flexible electronics, already seen in foldable smart phones, are forecast to be widely adopted in applications ranging from medical devices to smart packaging and from e-textiles to consumer products. This technological transition provides extensive opportunities for innovative materials, including amongst others novel OLED emitters, particle-free conductive inks and conductive adhesives. This IDTechEx report includes market forecasts, detailed company profiles based on interviews, case studies, and technological roadmaps spanning the full range of materials. Our comprehensive overview and analysis should enable readers to understand and take advantage of the opportunities presented by this transition to printed/flexible electronics.

This report explores the field of image recognition artificial intelligence (AI) for disease detection by breaking down its five main clinical applications. It describes emerging technologies, highlights key players and analyses market landscape for each sector. Trends, opportunities, threats and challenges (both technical and commercial) are discussed at length, thereby providing detailed insights into the current and future market for this technology.

IDTechEx has tracked the technology, player and market development of flexible, thin film and printed batteries since 2014. This report provides detailed technological analysis, market status introduction, market assessment, opportunity and barrier discussion, player activity tracking, and gives 10-year market forecast by technology and application.

Digital Water 2020-2030 covers the sensor market in water and wastewater treatment and pipe network markets. This comprehensive overview of the different sensor types, companies, strategies and use cases can provide insightful solutions to the digital water industry. This information is then used to forecast the market growth over the coming decade up to 2030, where it is expected to grow to over $2Bn.

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of OLED display technologies and markets. Granular forecasts and historic data are provided for eight market applications - cellphones, tablets/computers, TV, automotive, wearable, industrial/professional, Micro OLED and other - by substrate (glass, rigid plastic and foldable) - broken down by area, average panel price and market value. The report covers global progress with particular focus on Asian activities. Technical progress is assessed by technical IDTechEx analysts with roadmaps towards flexible or printed displays.

This report provides the most comprehensive view of the flexible, printed and organic electronics industry, giving detailed ten year forecasts by device type along with assessment of the trends, capabilities and market successes (and failures). The market is analyzed by each component type in addition to assessing the market value by printed vs non printed, rigid vs flexible electronics and much more. Key components covered include displays, sensors, batteries, logic, functional ink, e-textiles and more.

Emerging semiconductor laser technologies will revolutionise industrial material processing and optical sensing markets. IDTechEx forecast the global laser diode and direct diode laser market to reach a size of $13.985 billion by 2029. Remarkably, the optical sensing segment grows by an order of magnitude during this period. Automotive and electronics industries will benefit greatly from advances in laser manufacturing, 3D sensing and imaging, lidar, and industrial machine vision.

IDTechEx Research has been analysing the technologies and markets for barriers films and thin film encapsulation since 2010 when it was published in the first version of this report. Since that time, it has stayed extremely close to the latest research and market developments via its interview programme and company and conference visits. Each year, IDTechEx Research has updated its assessment, staying up-to-date with the latest technology and market developments.

This report provides you with everything that you need to know about stretchable electronics. It provides the most comprehensive and insightful view of this diverse emerging industry, discussing each of the different stretchable materials/components available and/or being developed today, referencing over 60 product types that may integrate stretchable electronics, covering the progress of more than 100 companies and 25 research institutes including first-hand primary research on 62 companies, and providing ten-year market forecasts segmented by more than 14 material/component areas.

Aerospace has the highest carbon footprint per tonne-km over any other mode of transportation. Regulatory demands coupled with economic and performance advantages mean that saving any weight is a constant target. This report looks at the key lightweighting approaches for this sector and which players and technologies stand to be the main winners and losers. The predominant focus is on advanced lightweight materials and the rise of additive manufacturing.

The report provides coverage of highly innovative laser technologies and the rapidly growing fiber laser market, which are rarely explored by market research companies. The report is authored by an analyst with a technical background in laser physics research.

Smart Glass is electrically active glass mainly for use in automotive, architectural and avionic windows, with demand growing to $1.1 billion in ten years. It is typically for electronic shading in place of physical blinds, or a semi-transparent PV window to generate electricity locally. As the only comprehensive report covering the technologies and markets, it will assist all in the value chain including building and vehicle designers, sellers and users.